A Prairie Sunset
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
| Metamark | |
| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
[begin leaf 1 recto]
emerald, fawn, The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's
multiform power consigned for once
to colors The ^light, the very airdiffused in
possess'd by
them,—colors till now
unknown No limits, confines—not the western, the
sky
alone—the high meridian—north,
south, all, Pure, ^varied, brilliant colors,varied, fused and
brilliant,
fighting the
silent, shadows to
the last. [begin leaf 1 verso]
A Prairie sunset.
Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver,emerald, fawn, The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's
multiform power consigned for once
to colors The ^light, the very air
unknown No limits, confines—not the western
alone—the high meridian—north,
south, all, Pure, ^varied, brilliant colors,
the last. [begin leaf 1 verso]
