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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AS NIGHT COMES, by CHARLES G. ADAMS
First Line: Day silently passes, the twilight falls
Last Line: To the somber robe flung down as night comes.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: Day silently passes, the twilight falls
Last Line: To the somber robe flung down as night comes.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
Day silently passes, the twilight falls,
Like old amber splashed on the garden walls.
Jagged hills, tawny as a lion cub,
Rise majestically over green fields;
And the air trembles with a rasping rub
As measured as breathing of fabled gnomes ...
Then in that breathless moment twilight yields
To the somber robe flung down as night comes.
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