| Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917. | | | | Twilight on Sixth Avenue | | By Charles G. D. Roberts |
| | | OVER the tops of the houses | |
| Twilight and sunset meet, | |
| The green, diaphanous dusk | |
| Sinks to the eager street. | |
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| Astray in the tangle of roofs | 5 |
| Wanders a wind of June, | |
| The dial shines in the clock-tower | |
| Like the face of a strange-scrawled moon. | |
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| The narrowing lines of the houses | |
| Palely begin to gleam, | 10 |
| And the hurrying crowds fade softly | |
| Like an army in a dream. | |
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| Above the vanishing faces | |
| A phantom train flares on, | |
| With a voice that shakes the shadows,— | 15 |
| Diminishes, and is gone. | |
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| And I walk with the journeying throng | |
| In such a solitude | |
| As where a lonely ocean | |
| Washes a lonely wood. | 20 | | | |
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