| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Evensong |
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| A SHEPHERD piping, herald of the Night | |
| Who comes with Silence up the coloured vale, | |
| Treading low gently, clad in greyish white, | |
| Poignantly piping, sound your reedy wail! | |
| For Day departed moves in funeral train | 5 |
| Tended by Twilight and, in deepest rose, | |
| The splendid Sunset melts beneath the main | |
| While sweet the Sea-wind with cool softness blows. | |
| As when a mother gathers to her breast | |
| The child who frets for Day’s remembered smart, | 10 |
| Now Light fades quickly in the ashen west, | |
| And Night-Peace falls across my troubled heart. | |
| Flutes, for the night through let my mind be still, | |
| And God keep safe with Him my stubborn will! | |
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