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 EVENING IN ENGLAND

its blue vase the rose of evening drops.

Upon the streams its petals float away.

The hills all blue with distance hide their tops

In the dim silence falling on the grey.

A little wind said "Hush!" and shook a spray

Heavy with May's white crop of opening bloom,

A silent bat went dipping up the gloom.

Night tells her rosary of stars full soon,

They drop from out her dark hand to her knees.

Upon a silhouette of woods the moon 168