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Don Marquis

I stood among the boats
The sinking sun, the angry sun,
  Across the sullen wave
Laid the sudden strength of his red wrath
  Like to a shaken glaive:—
Or did the sun pause in the west
  To lift a sword at me,
  Or was it she, or was it she,
Rose for an instant on some crest
And plucked the red blade from her breast
  And brandished it at me?

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From Dreams & Dust | Harper & Brothers, 1915

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