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A Picture

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The sun burns fiercely down the skies;     The sea is full of flashing eyes;     The waves glide shoreward serpentwise     And fawn with foamy tongues on stark     Gray rocks, each sharp-toothed as a shark,     And hiss in clefts and channels dark.     Blood-purple soon the waters grow,     As though drowned sea-kings fought below     Forgotten fights of long ago.     The gray owl Dusk its wings has spread;     The sun sinks in a blossom-bed     Of poppy-clouds; the day is dead.

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"The sun burns fiercely down the skies;..."

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