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The Death of the Scharnhorst, and Other Poems

TWILIGHT

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A little while ago that sky was gold, And green that hill, And blue the white-capped sea, And I stood watching through these vines a ship That moved, hull down, beyond, Beneath the point. I wonder now, before the stars are out And long black clouds have filled the sunset sky, Will I remember this at midnight hour: How much I longed to be aboard that ship!

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