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The Crickets
sang
And set the Sun
And Workmen
finished, one by one
Their Seam the
Day opon.
The low Grass
loaded with the Dew,
The Twilight stood
as Strangers do -
With Hat in Hand,
polite and new
To stay as if, or go.
A Vastness, as
a Neighbor, came -
A Wisdom without
Face or Name -
A Peace, as
Hemispheres at
Home -
And so, the Night
became -
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