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EVENING EFFECT ON THE VALLEY. |
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SONNET VII. EVENING EFFECT ON THE VALLEY.
“Earth has not any thing to show more fair!”So Wordsworth sang, what time he made his theme
The bridge that arches Westminster's proud stream:
Yet had he seen this lovely valley wear
The lingering brightness day hath yet to spare,
Each lengthening shadow, and each sunny gleam,
Silent in all their changes as a dream!
He might have doubted which the palm should bear
And now calm eve would draw her curtain grey
Over the melting landscape's mellower flush!
But for the brightly-glowing roseate blush
That tinges still the west:—it fades away!
And Nature owns the meek and gentle sway
Of pensive Twilight's universal hush!
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