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The call of homing rooks, the shrill

   Song of some bird that watches late,

The cries of children break the still

   Sad twilight by the churchyard gate.

And o’er your far-off tomb the grey

   Sad twilight broods, and from the trees

The rooks call on their homeward way,

   And are you heedless quite of these?

The clustered rowan berries red

   And Autumn’s may, the clematis,

They droop above your dreaming head,

   And these, and all things must you miss?

Ah, you that loved the twilight air,

   The dim lit hour of quiet best,

At last, at last you have your share

   Of what life gave so seldom, rest!

Yes, rest beyond all dreaming deep,

   Or labour, nearer the Divine,

And pure from fret, and smooth as sleep,

   And gentle as thy soul, is thine!

So let it be!  But could I know

   That thou in this soft autumn eve,

This hush of earth that pleased thee so,

   Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve.