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Joaquin Miller's Poems

[in six volumes]

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Broad, mesa, brown, bare mountains, brown,
Bowed sky of brown, that erst was blue;
Dark, earth-brown curtains coming down—
Earth-brown, that all hues melt into;
Brown twilight, born of light and shade;
Of night that came, of light that passed. ...
How like some lorn, majestic maid
That wares not whither way at last!
Now perfumed Night, sad-faced and far,
Walks up the world in somber brown.
Now suddenly a loosened star
Lets all her golden hair fall down—
And Night is dead Day's coffin-lid,
With stars of gold shot through his pall. ...
I hear the chorus, katydid;
A katydid, and that is all.