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GLOAMTIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

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First Line: THE SHADES OF THE GLOAMING AROUND ME ARE STEALING
Last Line: AFAR—WHERE MY UTTERMOST LONGINGS ABIDE.

The shades of the gloaming around me are stealing,
The lure of the dusk through the silences call,
While blossoming incense comes mutely appealing,
And choiring wood-voices, vespering, fall.
Immersed in the deep of my dim sylvan-bower,
Upborne on the breast of its emerald tide,
I drift with the gleam of the vanishing hour
Afar—where my uttermost longings abide.



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