Winter Nightfall

Robert Bridges

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1844 to 1930

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Of the setting sun.
In the lowering sky.
And braves as he may the night
He is giddy and sick
And up the lane
The dropping will not cease
A tall man there in the house
As the nearest rick:
Its lowering smoke is lost
Of darkness and tears.
You may hear, but cannot see,
His heart is worn with work;
In the avenue.
Breathe the spring air:
He thinks of his morn of life,
But nothing tells the place
If he rise to go as far
The day begins to droop,—
An engine pants and hums
Must keep his chair:
And all night through
In the farm hard by:
The soaking branches drip,
His hale, strong years;
He knows he will never again
Its course is done:
The hazy darkness deepens,
The homing wain.

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