THE SUNSET swept
To the valley’s west, you remember.
  
  The frost was on.
  A star burnt blue.
  We were warm, you remember,
And counted the rings on a moon.
  
  The sunset swept
  To the valley’s west
And was gone in a big dark door of stars.

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Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 40. Valley Song
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- V. Mist Forms
Year: Published/Written in 1922
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