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SUNDOWN, by                    
First Line: Sounds of the day come out distinct and clear
Last Line: And leaves the hills more silent than they were.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


SOUNDS of the day come out distinct and clear,
While children's voices break the muffled roar
That rises from the village. Evermore
The babble of birds falls on the dreaming ear.
The ring-dove gurgles from a coppice near,
The lark flits low above his wheaten floor,
And, tired of climbing, seeks his nestlings four,
While swallows cleave the laden atmosphere.

The bloom of fruit is on the distant firs,
The valley films with soft and fleecy spray,
The breeze but fans the face, and dies away,
And not a leaf within the forest stirs.
The sun goes down upon the throbbing air,
And leaves the hills more silent than they were.





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