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AN ABALONE SHELL by GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE

First Line: THE SUN WENT DOWN IN FOG TONIGHT
Last Line: I HOLD THE SUNSET IN MY HAND.
Subject(s): EVENING; SUN; SUNSET; TWILIGHT;

THE sun went down in fog tonight,
Dropped like a plummet in the bay;
Only the East was faintly bright,
While all the West was wide and gray.

The glories from the sky are stripped,
The long, smooth breakers meet the land,
Foam-stricken, gray-green, sullen-lipped;
I hold the sunset in my hand.



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