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    At Sundown, and other poems Part 5 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    At Sundown, and other poems Part 5 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    At Sundown, and other poems Part 5 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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    At Sundown, and other poems Part 5 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Title: At Sundown Part 5, From Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

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      AT SUNDOWN

      BY

      JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      AT SUNDOWN.

           TO E. C. S.

           THE CHRISTMAS OF 1888.

           THE VOW OF WASHINGTON

           THE CAPTAIN'S WELL

           AN OUTDOOR RECEPTION

           R. S. S., AT DEER ISLAND ON THE MERRIMAC

           BURNING DRIFT-WOOD.

           O. W. HOLMES ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY

           JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

           HAVERHILL. 1640-1890

           TO G. G.

           PRESTON POWERS, INSCRIPTION FOR BASS-RELIEF

           LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY, INSCRIPTION ON TABLET

           MILTON, ON MEMORIAL WINDOW

           THE BIRTHDAY WREATH

           THE WIND OF MARCH

           BETWEEN THE GATES

           THE LAST EVE OF SUMMER

           TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 8TH Mo. 29TH, 1892

      AT SUNDOWN

      TO E. C. S.

      Poet and friend of poets, if thy glass

      Detects no flower in winter's tuft of grass,

      Let this slight token of the debt I owe

      Outlive for thee December's frozen day,

      And, like the arbutus budding under snow,

      Take bloom and fragrance from some morn of May

      When he who gives it shall have gone the way

      Where faith shall see and reverent trust shall know.

      THE CHRISTMAS OF 1888.

      Low in the

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