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The summer sun is sinking low; / Only the tree-tops redden and glow: / Only the weathercock on the spire / Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; / All is in shadow below.
O beautiful, awful summer day, / What hast thou given, what taken away? / Life and death, and love and hate, / Homes made happy or desolate, / Hearts made sad or gay!
On the road of life one mile-stone more! / In the book of life one leaf turned o'er! / Like a red seal is the setting sun / On the good and the evil men have done, -- / Naught can to-day restore!