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436 TO MEMORY.

THE AFTER-GLOW.

is a solemn evening, golden-clear—

The Alpine summits flame with rose-lit snow

And headlands purpling on wide seas below.

And clouds and woods and arid rocks appear

Dissolving in the sun's own atmosphere

And vast circumference of light, whose slow

Transfiguration —glow and after-glow—

Turns twilight earth to a more luminous sphere.