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REVERY by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: DIM GROWS THE WOOD; THE AMBER EVENING TINTS
Last Line: NOW TELL ME, IS THIS HEAVEN, OR IS IT DAWN?
Subject(s): BELLS; DAY; EVENING; FORESTS; STARS; WIND; SUNSET; TWILIGHT; WOODS;

EVENING

DIM grows the wood; the amber evening tints
Merge into opal skies and stars just seen;
Down vistas gloomed and winding there are hints
Of elves and gnomes along the mosses green.

MIDNIGHT

A holy song the thrush has distant-sung;
The treetops murmur like some dreaming sea;
Hark! far away a silvern bell has rung
Twelve strokes, slow tolled, that faint and fade from me.

MORNING

A shaft of gold upon my upturned face
As fleeting and as shy as any fawn;
Sweet odors, stirring winds and forms of grace;
Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn?



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