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Glooming over Gold Those who trade in gold should logically be as euphoric as Forty-Niners striking a new lode.

From Time Magazine Archive

High float the Cirri, Passionless, pure; Wild pile the Cumuli, Never secure; Low sweep the Rain Clouds Over the sky, Glooming the sunshine, Slow trailing by.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Upon the fence's lanky rails I leaned to stare into great eyes Glooming beneath a bonnet white Bowed 'neath a chin of dimpled prize.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

There was never a sea of mystical gleams Glooming under enchanted skies Deep as the dark miraculous dreams In Anwyl's haunted eyes.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred