From high black walls, gleaming vaguely with rain, Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye. They trembled from coign to coign, and tower to t… - Conrad Aiken

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From high black walls, gleaming vaguely with rain,
Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye.
They trembled from coign to coign, and tower to tower,
Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew.
And some of them steadily glowed, and some soon vanished,
And some strange shadows threw.

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Conrad Potter Aiken (5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973) was an American writer and poet.

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Birth Name: Conrad Potter Aiken

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