Lyrics of Lowly Life / by Paul Laurence Dunbar [electronic text]
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Lyrics of Lowly Life / by Paul Laurence Dunbar [electronic text]
Author
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
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London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
1897
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SUNSET.
THE river sleeps beneath the sky,And clasps the shadows to its breast;The crescent moon shines dim on high;And in the lately radiant westThe gold is fading into gray.Now stills the lark his festive lay,And mourns with me the dying day.
While in the south the first faint starLifts to the night its silver face,And twinkles to the moon afarAcross the heaven's graying space,
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Low murmurs reach me from the town,As Day puts on her sombre crown,And shakes her mantle darkly down.
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