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"In Summer Twilight" by Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.

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July 10, 2021 

In Summer Twilight
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.

Just a dash of lambent carmine
  Shading into sky of gold;
Just a twitter of a song-bird
  Ere the wings its head enfold;
Just a rustling sigh of parting
  From the moon-kissed hill to breeze;
And a cheerful gentle, nodding
  Adieu waving from the trees;
Just a friendly sunbeam’s flutter
  Wishing all a night’s repose,
Ere the stars swing back the curtain
  Bringing twilight’s dewy close.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 10, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“In Summer Twilight” appeared in The Heart of the World (Stratford Co., 1919).
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He published both prose and poetry, including Poems of the Four Seas (The Cornhill Company, 1921), The Heart of the World (Stratford Co., 1919), and By Sanction of Law (McGrath Publishing Company, 1924). Jones died on December 14, 1955, in Boston.
 
The Heart of the World
The Heart of the World 
(Stratford Co., 1919)
“The Sun Has Long Been Set” by William Wordsworth
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“In Summer Time” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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