floods of yellow gold
gorgeous, indolent, sinking
burning, expanding
Adapted from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d by Walt Whitman
Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there,
With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,
And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
Sunset over Pinckney Island and Skull Creek at high tide on the north end of Hilton Head Island.
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