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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNSET REVERENCE, by DOROTHEA PIERSON MCCLURE
First Line: Gently the evening breeze dies down
Last Line: With peace to end the dying day.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: Gently the evening breeze dies down
Last Line: With peace to end the dying day.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
Gently the evening breeze dies down;
Clearly, sweetly does the angelus sound.
Lo! the lowly peasants in the field
Bow their heads and reverently kneel.
The sunset clouds blaze and curl
To reds and golds: like billowing sails unfurl.
Night's shadows walk with unheard tread
Across the sky-paths far ahead.
Homeward face the weary toilers --
Men of the soil, these peasant toilers;
From Nature's fields they wend their way,
With peace to end the dying day.
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