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Scholarly Editing

The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

2013, Volume 34

Sunset Wings

by Dante Gabriel RossettiEdited by Marianne Van Remoortel
Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), February 23, 1920View Page
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Sunset Wings

Tonight this sunset spreads two golden wings Cleaving the western sky; Winged too with wind it is, and winnowings Of birds; . . .
Sun-steeped in fire, the homeward pinions sway Above the dovecote-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.
D. G. Rossetti.