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LOVE’S SUNSET.

As shadows lengthen with the day’s declining,

Like troops of dusky spectres onward creeping,

Weaving swart stripes amid the golden shining

Where meadow, brook and moss-grown hill lie sleeping;

With murky fingers Nature’s sweet book closing—

Each bell and blossom and each three-leaved clover,

With stealthy march the sun’s glad sway deposing,

Till, widening, deepening, darkness shrouds earth over: