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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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