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by Unknown

UT then the sunset smiled,

Smiled once and turned toward dark,

Above the distant, wavering line of trees that filed

Along the horizon’s edge;

Like hooded monks that hark

Through evening air

The call to prayer;—

Smiled once, and faded slow, slow, slow away;

When, like a changing dream, the long cloud-wedge,

Brown-gray,