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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT CLOSES IN, by BONSALL RHODES
First Line: A red bird flashes silently by
Last Line: Voiceless, yet vocal, night closes in!
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: A red bird flashes silently by
Last Line: Voiceless, yet vocal, night closes in!
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
A red bird flashes silently by.
Sweetly far and plaintive a thrush
Calls to the faint cool wind high
In the trees and rustling in the brush,
A chewink scratches in the dark loam
Of the forest centuries and centuries old.
Nervously a chipmunk seeks his home
In a scarred oak, green and gold
Between long shadows of late sunlight,
While the winds to attentive ears
Whisper of mystery in the coming night,
Of noiseless energies and quick fears
For all the small furred things.
Slowly the great red sun falls
Over the far horizon and flings
A golden hush over the bird calls
As its brilliant mantle seemingly drinks
Up the day and a lonely star,
High in the pale Heavens winks
Through the twilight, like a faint scar.
Mystery on mystery, shadow on shadow,
Inevitable as the committing of sin
That the moon's cool light may hallow,
Voiceless, yet vocal, night closes in!
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