Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNSET IN MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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First Line: O the splendor of the city
Last Line: Chill the wind of midnight blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): Moscow At Evening
Subject(s): Evening; Moscow; Russia; Sunset; Twilight; Soviet Union; Russians


O THE splendor of the city,
When the sun is in the west!
Ruddy gold on spire and belfry,
Gold on Moskwa's placid breast;
Till the twilight soft and sombre
Falls on wall and street and square,
And the domes and towers in shadow
Stand like silent monks at prayer.

'T is the hour for dream and legend:
Meet me by the Sacred Gate!
We will watch the crowd go by us;
We will stories old relate;
Till the bugle of the barracks
Calls the soldier to repose,
And from off the steppe to northward
Chill the wind of midnight blows.





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