Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]

Purple the hills stretch under purple mists, A damson-frosted purple that persists Even in the valley, darkling there that lies— No bluer black hath night, no darker dyes.

The low gray clouds, whose edges are thinned, And spunBy the sunAnd the wind,How they swirl and curl And furl and unfurl Into lawny lengths of snow and pearl!

Now feathering white as the moon-mists do, For the wind and the sun to tempest through, Now closing over, Cloud-cover on cover, Deep azure chasms of fringing blue.