| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | Twilight Town | | By Ralph Erwin Gibbs |
| | | OH, Twilight Town is the other side | |
| Of the Hills of the Sunset Light! | |
| Just on the shore of the Sleepy Tide, | |
| Where the weird dream-ships at anchor ride, | |
| Till they sail away at night. | 5 |
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| They sail away over the slumber sea, | |
| And the pilot? None can tell. | |
| But who may the crew and the passengers be? | |
| There’s Tommy and Elsie, and several wee | |
| Little scamps that we know well. | 10 |
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| With the whitest of carpets the decks are spread | |
| And guarded with golden rails; | |
| Old Santa Claus is the figurehead,— | |
| And soft by a lullaby air they’re sped | |
| That billows the misty sails. | 15 | | | |
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