Twilight
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 to 1882
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Flash the white caps of the sea.
Now bowing and bending low.
Is passing to and fro,
The twilight is sad and cloudy,
Drive the color from her cheek?
As they beat at the heart of the mother,
Close, close it is pressed to the window,
And why do the roaring ocean,
As they beat at the crazy casement,
And a little face at the window
And like the wings of sea-birds
And a woman's waving shadow
Tell to that little child?
And the night-wind, bleak and wild,
Peers out into the night.
To see some form arise.
But in the fisherman's cottage
The wind blows wild and free,
As if those childish eyes
There shines a ruddier light,
Now rising to the ceiling,
Were looking into the darkness,
What tale do the roaring ocean,
And the night-wind, wild and bleak,
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