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AUTUMN SUNSET by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER

First Line: EVENING AND THE CLEAR SUN
Last Line: FAIR AND FOOLISH DREAMS.
Subject(s): EVENING; LONDON; SUNSET; TWILIGHT;

EVENING and the clear sun
Slides down opal ways;
London like a crystal
Shines beneath my gaze.
Rosy, pearly, blue and brown,
Is the pale-washed sky;
Right and left, and up and down,
Gleaming roof-tops lie;
In the calm of autumn
All the city seems
A young giant dreaming
Fair and foolish dreams.



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