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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Amelia CoppuckWelby

496 Twilight at Sea

THE TWILIGHT hours like birds flew by,

As lightly and as free;

Ten thousand stars were in the sky,

Ten thousand on the sea;

For every wave with dimpled face,

That leaped upon the air,

Had caught a star in its embrace,

And held it trembling there.