THE EVENING TRAIN 
 
 TO PALM TREE LAND 
 
 AND OTHER POEMS 
 
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 BY 
 
 WILLIAM GARY SANGER, Jr. 
 
THE EVENING TRAIN 
 
 TO PALM TREE LAND 
 
 AND OTHER POEMS 
 
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 BY 
 WILLIAM GARY SANGER, Jr. 
 
 Author of Verse 
 
 TIDES OF COMMERCE 
 THE CITY OF TOIL AND DREAMS 
 WITH THE ARMIES OF FRANCE 
 IN THE LAND OF THE HARVEST 
 SPRINGTIME AND THE HARBOR 
 
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 THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED 
 
 TO MY SISTER 
 
 MARY ETHEL SANGER 
 
THE EVENING TRAIN 
 To PALM TREE LAND 
 
 AND OTHER POEMS 
 
THE EVENING TRAIN TO PALM TREE 
 
 LAND 
 
 A winter day — and the drifting snows 
 
 And frozen fields — where the north wind blows, 
 
 Gray and chill the sombre sky 
 
 As the icy storm goes moaning by. 
 
 But now the evening lights appear 
 And my heart is glad — for the hour draws near 
 When I take the train for the moonlit sand 
 And the warm sea fragrance of Palm Tree Land. 
 
 And there beside the dreaming sea 
 My Creole girl is waiting me 
 With her ukulele or her guitar 
 Under the palms and the evening star. 
 
 November 17, 1920. 
 
GRAY DAWN ON THE SEAS 
 
 Gray and sullen across the seas 
 
 The sombre dawn, autumnal drear, 
 
 Comes — with a cold, mist-laden breeze, 
 And the lowering fog banks near. 
 
 The ship swings up and rolls and lifts 
 As the heavy shouldering waves go by, 
 
 And over the billows a lone gull drifts 
 As the gray light spreads in the sky. 
 
 October, 1920. 
 
THE GIRDERS AND THE STARS 
 
 (Moonlight view of the steel framework of an office 
 building under construction) 
 
 Moonlight — and the girders, 
 The great steel beams and bars 
 
 That tower to the heavens. 
 Reared against the stars. 
 
 The quiet city drowses 
 
 In the warm midsummer night, 
 
 With the silver of the moonbeams 
 On wall and towered height. 
 
 And framed between the girders 
 
 The mystic moon serene 
 Looks down upon the magic 
 
 And the beauty of the scene. 
 
 July, 1920. 
 
WHEN THE SNOWS ARE MELTING 
 
 Mist on the hills 
 
 And the first warm fragrance of spring, 
 
 For the snov^rs are melting 
 
 And youth is waking 
 
 And life begins again. 
 
 March, 1921. 
 
THE MAGIC OF THE NIGHT 
 
 The sunset colors fade away 
 
 Far in the west, 
 How gladly at the close of day 
 
 The city turns to rest. 
 
 Forgotten now the busy cares 
 
 Of daylight hours. 
 For now the balmy moonlight airs 
 
 Enwrap the walls and towers. 
 
 With mystery and starry light 
 
 From far above. 
 While in the quiet, drowsy night 
 
 The city dreams of love. 
 
 October 3, 1920. 
 
THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD 
 
 The time is drawing near 
 When all the Nations of the earth 
 In brotherhood and love and peace 
 Shall be united. 
 
 How gloriously then 
 
 The flags of Peace and Liberty 
 
 Will float against the dreaming skies of blue, 
 
 And oh, how youthful and how happy and how 
 
 free 
 The hearts of people ever5rwhere 
 When all the lands and Nations near and far 
 Shall be the steadfast members of a League: 
 The United States of the World. 
 What glorious vistas then of hope and life 
 For all humanity shall come in those glad years 
 Of lasting and eternal love and peace. 
 
 September 28, 1920. 
 
BEAUTY 
 
 Throughout the passing ages, year by year 
 Beauty remains triumphant, youthful, free, 
 Endowed with all the charms that most endear: 
 Alluring love, and grace, vivacity 
 And tenderness that dreams beneath the stars. 
 How often in the course of human life 
 Tumult and war and pain and anguish mars 
 Our tranquilness and peace with care and strife, 
 Yet through it all beauty and love still glow 
 With youth and freshness, the undying fire 
 Of hope eternal, by whose light we know 
 The magic land of dreams and of desire. 
 Then live, victorious beauty, tender, true, 
 Our fervent praise and love we bring to you. 
 
 February, I 92 I. 
 
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