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AUTUMN WALK BY THE SEA.

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IN the wan sunlight, when the day was ending,

The chilly autumn day,

I walkt where waves dasht white and lonely, wending

Mine unforgotten way

Across the long, low sands that hem the sea,

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Where in the summer days one walkt with me.

Dark clouds blew up from eastward, and the loud land

Rang with the calling wind;

The last red rays lagg'd in a desert cloudland

Of desert west behind;

And on the dull sea-line a single sail

Shone red, far-off, and faded, faint and pale.

The twilight follow'd hard the trailing sunlight

Across the yellow sands;

I walkt and was in darkness, lacking one light,

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