A Prairie Sunset

Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, The earth’s whole amplitude and Nature’s multiform power consign’d for once to colors; The light, the general air possess’d by them⁠—colors till now unknown, No limit, confine⁠—not the Western sky alone⁠—the high meridian⁠—North, South, all, Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.