William Ellery Leonard Sun Poems
- 1. Indian Summer
(After completing a book for one now dead)
(O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun,
She is not by, to know my task is done.)
... - 2. Compensation
I know the sorrows of the last abyss:
I walked the cold black pools without a star;
I lay on rock of unseen flint and spar;
I heard the execrable serpent hiss;
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