Sunset

The weary wind is slumbering on the wing:

Leaping from out meek twilight's purpling blue

Burns the proud star of eve as though it knew

It was the big king jewel quivering

On the black turban of advancing night.

In the dim west the soldiers of the sun

Strike all their royal colours one by one,

Reluctantly surrender every height.

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