I saw the day’s white rapture
Die in the sunset’s flame,
But all her shining beauty
Lives like a deathless name.
Our lamps of joy are wasted,
Gone is Love’s hallowed light;
But you and I remember
Through every starlit night.
(Charles Hanson Towne)
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