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EVENING by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN

First Line: FROM UPLAND SLOPES I SEE THE COWS FILE BY
Last Line: SHINE OUT THE STARS, AND THE GREAT NIGHT COMES ON.
Subject(s): EVENING; NATURE; SUNSET; TWILIGHT;

FROM upland slopes I see the cows file by,
Lowing, great-chested, down the homeward trail,
By dusking fields and meadows shining pale
With moon-tipped dandelions; flickering high,
A peevish night-hawk in the western sky
Beats up into the lucent solitudes,
Or drops with griding wing; the stilly woods
Grow dark and deep, and gloom mysteriously.
Cool night-winds creep and whisper in mine ear;
The homely cricket gossips at my feet;
From far-off pools and wastes of reeds I hear
With ebb and change the chanting frogs break sweet
In full Pandean chorus; one by one
Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on.



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