"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town."
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"Golden-Rod", st. 2, in The Independent, vol. 42, no. 2,181 (September 18, 1890) p. 28. Also in Poems (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1917) p. 148
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Frank Dempster Sherman
Frank Dempster Sherman (May 6, 1860 – September 19, 1916), sometimes writing as Felix Carmen, was an American poet and academic.
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