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FALSE MORNING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low in the west the pitiless sun dies
Last Line: The long hours when the night and I were mute!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare
Subject(s): Evening; Morning; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime


Low in the West the pitiless sun dies;
The hills withdraw into the mist, to sleep,
And stars unnumbered swarm across the skies
Above the fugitive brown bats that cheep
Weakly on aimless wings. The Night descends
And draws a pendulous sable sleeve across
Earth's wrinkled face. The deepening darkness lends
Texture to compensate for color's loss.
No breeze, no sound -- 'til suddenly the hush
Is broken by the shrill call of a bird
Dreaming of Dawn, who wakes his fellow-thrush,
Then folds the wings some ghost of Morning stirred.
Strange that so small a sound could so refute
The long hours when the Night and I were mute!





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