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 | Leaves of grass (1872) |  |
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On the beach, at night,Stands a child, with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
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Up through the darkness,While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower, sullen and fast, athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
Ascends, large and calm, the lord-star Jupiter;
And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
Swim the delicate brothers, the Pleiades.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |