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The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

2013, Volume 34

Sunset Wings

by Dante Gabriel RossettiEdited by Marianne Van Remoortel
Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ), October 25, 1911View Page
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SUNSET WINGS.

Tonight the sunset spreads two golden wings, Cleaving the western sky; Winged, too, with wind it is, and winnowings Of birds; as if the day's last hour in rings Of strenuous flight must die.
Sun-steeped in fire, the homeward pinions sway Above the dove-cote's tops; And clouds of starlings, ere they rest with day, Sink clamorous like mill waters, at wild play, By turns in every copse;
Each tree, heart-deep the wrangling rout receives— Save for the whirr within, You could not tell the starlings from the leaves; Then one great puff of wings and the swarm heaves Away with all its din.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti.