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A SUNSET by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WHAT MEANS IT, LORD? NO, DANIEL
Last Line: THE MAJESTY OF DAY?
Subject(s): EVENING; SUNSET; TWILIGHT;

What means it, Lord? No Daniel
In Nature's banquet-hall
Appears, thy messenger, to spell
The writing on the wall.

Is it the Babylonian doom, --
A kingdom passed away --
A midnight monarch to assume
The majesty of Day?



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