Destroyers and Other Verses/East and West

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East and West.
Twilight has veiled the East in sundown grey,And the dun woldStretches in one unbroken sheet awayTo climb the sky: a rich autumnal dayDies colourless and cold.
Grey silent poplars, straight as grenadiers,Guard the King's way—A long white streak that winds and disappearsInto the darkness, far from hopes and fearsAnd joyless play.
Though all the East seems full of quiet prayer,The west wind flingsIn upward gusts the frolic of a fair,A tinkling dissonance and murky glareOf booths and swings.
Paris, September, 1855.
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