<h2><SPAN name="chap70"></SPAN>EVENSONG</h2>
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A shepherd piping, herald of the Night<br/>
Who comes with Silence up the coloured vale,<br/>
Treading low gently, clad in greyish white,<br/>
Poignantly piping, sound your reedy wail!<br/>
For Day departed moves in funeral train<br/>
Tended by Twilight and, in deepest rose,<br/>
The splendid Sunset melts beneath the main<br/>
While sweet the Sea-wind with cool softness blows.<br/>
As when a mother gathers to her breast<br/>
The child who frets for Dad’s remembered smart,<br/>
Now Light fades quickly in the ashen west,<br/>
And Night-Peace falls across my troubled heart.<br/>
Flutes, for the night through let my mind be still,<br/>
And God keep safe with Him my stubborn will!<br/></p>
<p class="left">
NORREYS JEPHSON O’CONOR</p>
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