Poems (Jordan)/At Sunset

For works with similar titles, see At Sunset.
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AT SUNSET
Night sowed his golden star-seed in the sky, And sprinkled them with vapor all about;Morn, clad in gorgeous garments, sauntered by To see if they had yet begun to sprout;Then came the King of Day with stately tread, And, with warm fingers, loosed their mystic bands;And white-masked tints raised, each, a tiny head, And stretched tow'rd him stems, like cloud-covered hands;Then—sudden bloom! and the star-flowers all,Let o'er the earth their broken petals fall!

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