Afterwhiles  by James Whitcomb Riley
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			One indeed who blesses thee: 
			Robbing thee, I dispossess But myself--. Pray thou for me!" He shall sleep unscathed of thieves Who loves Allah and believes. _September Dark_ 1 The air falls chill; The whippoorwill Pipes lonesomely behind the Hill: The dusk grows dense, The silence tense; And lo, the katydids commence. 2 Through shadowy rifts Of woodland lifts The low, slow moon, and upward drifts, While left and right The fireflies' light Swirls eddying in the skirts of Night. 3 O Cloudland gray And level lay Thy mists across the face of Day!  | 
		
			
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