Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one near or far To keep the world from being mine.
Sara Teasdale
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one near or far To keep the world from being mine.
At dusk in autumn, the speaker looks out over a rolling landscape of hills and notices a single planet shining above them. There’s no one else nearby—no human presence to break the stillness—and that emptiness becomes a kind of gift.
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