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Elizabeth Coatsworth: The sunset caught...

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The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,
set the clouds
to one great roof of flame
above the earth.

Source: On the Hills, Atlas and Beyond, 1924
-- Elizabeth Coatsworth, (May 31 1893-1986), US poet, children's author; She won the Newbery Award for The Cat Who Went to Heaven, 1930.


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