Wrong End of the Sunset.


Thin fans of ice ferns spread upon the panes,
A tithe of the chill which bores a cool, lithe
Screw through the fitful veins
Awake among the greenery. Hothouse

Roses rubify, as their spines
Pick out the sun from shadow, every second snaking
2ce its light. This awful night -- done:
The time is come
When the bright arms are taken to the
Breast of a sleepless knight who clocks each fraction
On his shield. One pitiful third of life is
Spent asleep: and now

That restless mystery through bleary
Intemperate eyes dawns and clips the cycle,
Seen through leaf-green slides and gelid bowers:
Cold rosulated seconds bud
To full-blown hours.