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Far up the sky the sunset glamour spreads, / Far off the city lies in golden mist; / The sea grows calm, the waves the sun has kissed / Strike white hands softly 'gainst the rocky heads.
So calm the world, so still the city lies, / So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; / And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, / Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise.
The wheels pause only for a little space, / And in the pause they gather strength again. / 'Tis but the veil drawn over Labour's face,
O'er strife, derision, and the sin of men.
My heart with a sweet inner joy o'erflows / To nature's peace, and a kind silence knows.