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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FALLING DAY, by CHRISTY MACKAYE
First Line: If there's silence in summer
Last Line: That you hear.
Subject(s): Day; Summer; Sun
First Line: If there's silence in summer
Last Line: That you hear.
Subject(s): Day; Summer; Sun
If there's silence in summer
When the sun is in the northlands,
It's the stillness of sorrow
In the falling day.
When the sun lays her down
In the laughing fields of evening,
It's the weeping of the grasses
That you hear.
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