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<h2>A Prairie Sunset </h2>
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Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,<br/>
The earth’s whole amplitude and Nature’s multiform power consign’d<br/>
for once to colors;<br/>
The light, the general air possess’d by them—colors till now unknown,<br/>
No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—<br/>
North, South, all,<br/>
Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.<br/></p>
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