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A FRAGMENT by FENTON JOHNSON

First Line: ONE SUNSET WHEN THE SKIES WERE DEEPEST RED
Last Line: STOOPED LOW AND PLACED IT ON HER BONNY HEAD.
One sunset when the skies were deepest red,
As if they blushed for all the human sins,
I saw her gather daffodils, and sighed,
For she was sweeter far than those poor flowers
And all the flowers that grace this universe,
And in my dream I saw a crown descend
From out the firmament and drop to earth.
It fell beside a brook whose gleaming drops
Shone like the diamonds in the sable night,
And I, the humblest in the realm of men,
Stooped low and placed it on her bonny head.



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