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<h2>SUNSET</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> From this windy bridge at rest, In some former curious hour, We have watched the city's hue, All along the orange west, Cupola and pointed tower, Darken into solid blue. </div> <div class="stanza"> Tho' the biting north wind breaks Full across this drifted hold, Let us stand with icèd cheeks Watching westward as of old; </div> <div class="stanza"> [47]Past the violet mountain-head To the farthest fringe of pine, Where far off the purple-red Narrows to a dusky line, And the last pale splendors die Slowly from the olive sky; </div> <div class="stanza"> Till the thin clouds wear away Into threads of purple-gray, And the sudden stars between Brighten in the pallid green; </div> <div class="stanza"> Till above the spacious east, Slow returnèd one by one, Like pale prisoners released From the dungeons of the sun, Capella and her train appear In the glittering Charioteer; </div> <div class="stanza"> Till the rounded moon shall grow Great above the eastern snow, Shining into burnished gold; And the silver earth outrolled, In the misty yellow light, Shall take on the width of night. </div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div>[48]</div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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