Two Twilights

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1> THE TWO TWILIGHTS </h1> <h4> BY </h4> <h3> HENRY A. BEERS </h3> <br/><br/><br/> <h3> THE THANKLESS MUSE<br/> </h3> <p class="poem"> The muses ring my bell and run away.<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">I spy you, rogues, behind the evergreen:</SPAN><br/> You, wild Thalia, romper in the hay;<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">And you, Terpsichore, you long-legged quean.</SPAN><br/> When I was young you used to come and stay,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">But, now that I grow older, 'tis well seen</SPAN><br/> What tricks ye put upon me. Well-a-day!<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">How many a summer evening have ye been</SPAN><br/> Sitting about my door-step, fain to sing<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1.5em">And tell old tales, while through the fragrant dark</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Burned the large planets, throbbed the brooding sound</SPAN><br/> Of crickets and the tree-toads' ceaseless ring;<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">And in the meads the fire-fly lit her spark</SPAN><br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Where from my threshold sank the vale profound.</SPAN><br/></p> <br/><br/><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />