Dusk (Drinkwater)

Dusk written by John Drinkwater

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Slowly, slowly, pass away
  Images my mind has held
In companionship of day—
  In the sunbeams beauty-spelled;
    Slowly, slowly, wanes the sun,
    Till with shadows they are one.
 
Planets that outpace the moon
  Waken on a dusky sky;
Waters that outshone the noon
  Darken slowly, slowly die;
    Scarlet poppies in the gloom
    Drowsing burn a deeper bloom.

Slowly, slowly, sleep comes on,
  Stealing, sealing everything;
All the dog-roses are gone,
  Folded now is every wing;
    All the witnesses of day
    Slowly, slowly, pass away.

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