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SUNSET AND MOONRISE

New Year's Eve, 1899

All the west, whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's
glorious grave
Fast with seals of light and fire and cloud that light
and fire illume,
Glows at heart and kindles earth and heaven with
joyous blush and bloom,
Warm and wide as life, and glad of death that only
slays to save.
As a tide-reconquered sea-rock lies aflush with the
influent wave
Lies the light aflush with darkness, lapped about by
lustrous gloom,

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