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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
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX), March 6, 1920View Page
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SUNSET WINGS.

TO-NIGHT 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.
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