The summer sun is sinking low; <br />Only the tree-tops redden and glow: <br />Only the weathercock on the spire <br />Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; <br />All is in shadow below. <br /> <br />O beautiful, awful summer day, <br />What hast thou given, what taken away? <br />Life and death, and love and hate, <br />Homes made happy or desolate, <br />Hearts made sad or gay! <br /> <br />On the road of life one mile-stone more! <br />In the book of life one leaf turned o'er! <br />Like a red seal is the setting sun <br />On the good and the evil men have done,-- <br />Naught can to-day restore!<br /><br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sundown/
