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AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: THE SHORT SWEET PURPLE TWILIGHT DREAMS
Last Line: THAT STIRS IT FROM CICALAS SHRILL.
Subject(s): AUSTRALIA; DREAMS; DUSK; ORANGES; NIGHTMARES;
The short sweet purple twilight dreams
Of vanish'd day, of coming night;
And like gold moons in the soft light
Each scented drooping orange gleams
From out the glossy leaves black-green
That make through noon a cool dark screen.
The dusk is silence, save the thrill
That stirs it from cicalas shrill.



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