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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ETCHINGS: 3. TWILIT RIVERS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography
First Line: Little rivers at twilight
Last Line: Falls silent in the fold.
Subject(s): Evening; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: Little rivers at twilight
Last Line: Falls silent in the fold.
Subject(s): Evening; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight
Little rivers at twilight,
Little wintry rivers,
Running between brown trees
With mistletoed branches;
Catching dark shivery shadows
Of boughs into your bosoms,
And a pale silvery star
Between burnt clouds of gold. ...
Little lowly rivers,
How sad your spirit shimmers!
All the land's rainy loneliness
Is running in your flow;
While farm-lights faintly quiver
And brown hills freeze about you
And the music of the sheep-bells
Falls silent in the fold.
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