PALMS
Reading edition
Palms in the sunset of a languid summer land! Sculpture of living green, on dreamy scarlet light Dividing as a wall the twilight from the night! How magically still and luminous they stand, Inclining fretted leaves above some red lagoon— Careless alike, in mystic and immense repose, Of the flamingo-coloured, flying sun that goes, Or the slow coming of the lion-coloured moon.