Last Light



And while in life's late afternoon,
    Where cool and long the shadows grow,
I walk to meet the night that soon
    Shall shape and shadow overflow,
I cannot feel that thou art far,
Since near at need the angels are;

-John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892),
Snow-Bound; A Winter Idyl







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