Sands at Seventy - A Prairie Sunset

Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,

The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;

The light, the general air possess'd by them - colors till now unknown,

No limit, confine - not the Western sky alone - the high meridian - North, South, all,

Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.