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WHEN EVENING LIKE AN ANGEL by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH

First Line: WHEN EVENING LIKE AN ANGEL WALKS
Last Line: A BENEDICITE!
Subject(s): EVENING; SUNSET; TWILIGHT;
When evening like an angel walks
The dim old village street,
And children's homing voices die
In echoes far and sweet,

I watch the home lights softly glow
Between the archéd trees
Like lights of love along life's way
Or by its chartless seas;

I hear low greetings in the dusk,
The word of friend to friend,
The tender phrase of one who meets
A love at journey's end;

And o'er the village hearths and homes
In fancy I can see
The angel of the evening speak
A benedicite!



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