"England’s sun was slowly setting o’er the hill-tops far away, Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day; And its last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair,— He with footsteps slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair; He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful; she with lips so cold and white, Struggled to keep back the murmur, “Curfew must not ring to-night.”"
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Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Rose Hartwick Thorpe (July 18, 1850, Mishawaka, Indiana – July 19, 1939, San Diego, California) was an American poet.
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