Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!drutx!druxi!geoff From: geoff@druxi.UUCP (SherwoodGC) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: Afterglow Message-ID: <699@druxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 10:52:18 EST Article-I.D.: druxi.699 Posted: Wed Jan 18 10:52:18 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 02:41:01 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 24 Afterglow Geoffrey C. Sherwood I gaze across a tranquil sea And watch the sun ease out of sight: A fiery glow, at last set free, Will usher in the still, black night. The orb has set, but every cloud Reflects the dying crimson rays Which give the sky a burning shroud In which to face night's cold, dark gaze. But wraiths of mist cannot prevail Against a foe that few withstand. Too soon this last defence will fail And leave the night in sole command. The final embers pale and fade, While overhead the stars appear. The flaming pyre that Sol had made Has turned to ash: the night is here.