Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DAWN OF EVENING, by CARRIE MAY NICHOLS


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DAWN OF EVENING, by                    
First Line: A lone, bright evening star
Last Line: "to comfort and to please."
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight


A lone, bright evening star
Looked down and beckoned me
To hear the call of night
Acclaimed o'er land and sea.
A call but not a voice,
Recorded not in sound
But universal calm
Put into words profound.
The noises of the day, --
The hum-de-dum of toil --
Have ceased and darkness creeps
The workmen's plan to foil.
The coaxing mother hen
Then gathers in her brood;
And cattle from the fields
Come in, in peaceful mood.
The mocking birds that trilled
At morn when day was new
Have answered evening's call
With silence and are through.
Then comes another star;
And then some more, and more;
Thus beauty, peace and rest
Proclaim the day is o'er.
My soul cries in love,
"'Tis wondrous, deep and true
How gold-besprinkled skies
Can take the place of blue;
How silence rules supreme
When not a voice commands;
How all in nature rests;
And each one understands
That He who hides the sun
And cools the evening breeze
Does all that can be done
To comfort and to please."





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