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An October Sunset.

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One moment the slim cloudflakes seem to lean     With their sad sunward faces aureoled,     And longing lips set downward brightening     To take the last sweet hand kiss of the king,     Gone down beyond the closing west acold;     Paying no reverence to the slender queen,     That like a curvd olive leaf of gold     Hangs low in heaven, rounded toward sun,     Or the small stars that one by one unfold     Down the gray border of the night begun.

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