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Poem by William Allingham


After Sunset


The vast and solemn company of clouds
Around the Sun's death, lit, incarnadined,
Cool into ashy wan; as Night enshrouds
The level pasture, creeping up behind
Through voiceless vales, o'er lawn and purpled hill
And hazéd mead, her mystery to fulfil.
Cows low from far-off farms; the loitering wind
Sighs in the hedge, you hear it if you will,--
Tho' all the wood, alive atop with wings
Lifting and sinking through the leafy nooks,
Seethes with the clamour of a thousand rooks.
Now every sound at length is hush'd away.
These few are sacred moments. One more Day
Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things. 



William Allingham


William Allingham's other poems:
  1. Wayconnell Tower
  2. A Burial-place
  3. In Highgate Cemetery
  4. To the Castle of Donegal
  5. The Emigrant’s Adieu to Ballyshannon


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