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First Line: The embers of the day are red
Last Line: Comes. I will eat and sleep and will not question more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


The embers of the day are red
Beyond the murky hill.
The kitchen smokes: the bed
In the darkling house is spread:
The great sky darkens overhead,
And the great woods are shrill.
So far have I been led,
Lord, by Thy will:
So far I have followed, Lord, and wondered still.

The breeze from the embalmed land
Blows sudden toward the shore,
And claps my cottage door.
I hear the signal, Lord -- I understand.
The night at Thy command
Comes. I will eat and sleep and will not question more.




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