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EVENING ON LAKE SUPERIOR by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP

First Line: LIKE TO A MOLTEN GLOBE WHICH WORKERS TURN
Last Line: OUR SHADOWY TOW-BOAT FOLLOWED IN OUR WAKE.
Subject(s): GREAT LAKES; NIGHT; BEDTIME;

LIKE to a molten globe which workers turn,
Of crimson-heated steel, the sinking sun
Dropped to the far blue level of the lake
And laid a burning causeway o'er the waves.
Then in the russet twilight sable clouds
Sat here and there, sprinkled with little stars—
Thus darkness came, and, a red light to port,
A green to starboard, at the cable's end
Our shadowy tow-boat followed in our wake.



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