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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG
First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw
Last Line: Bathed in light!
Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips
First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw
Last Line: Bathed in light!
Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips
Compassionately, tenderly, they throw
Their rainbow veils about the homely town
Until it smiles in startled beauty down
Upon the hurrying footsteps of the night:
All its fiery opal windows,
All its restless ruby windows,
All its twinkling topaz windows
Bathed in light!
They kiss the murky river lovingly
Their rainbow ribbons stretching far away—
A lingering echo of departing day,
A lovely, haunting, almost magic sight:
On the glittering, golden water,
On the rippling, rosy water,
On the sparkling, sapphire water
Bathed in light!
Oh, the joy of wakening a city
Of dingy drab and leaden, homely grey
To vivid color, as the winter day
Runs swiftly into the soft arms of night:
All the gayly beckoning byways,
All the winding, friendly byways,
All the broad and wandering highways,
Bathed in light!
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