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Dawn

James McCarroll (1814–1892)

WITH folded wings of dusky light

Upon the purple hills she stands,

An angel between day and night,

With tinted shadows in her hands;

Till suddenly transfigured there,

With all her dazzling plumes unfurled

She climbs the crimson-flooded air,

And flies in glory o’er the world.