Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893.
The Belfry of Bruges and Other PoemsSongs. Afternoon in February
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The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red.
The buried fences
Mark no longer
The road o’er the plain;
Like fearful shadows,
Slowly passes
A funeral train.
And every feeling
Within me responds
To the dismal knell;
My heart is bewailing
And tolling within
Like a funeral bell.