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An Evening

Gwendolyn Brooks

A sunset's mounded cloud;
A diamond evening-star;
Sad blue hills afar;
Love in his shroud.
Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a summer day;
Sweet Love dead.




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Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
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