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Hold the trinket near thine eye,
And it circles earth and sky;
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Breathe above me or below;
Never canst thou farther go
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Lo! all thy glory gone!
God's masterpiece undone!
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And dost thou lead him hence with thee
O setting sun,
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O tender shade!
Lone captive of enamoured Light,
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Since that the dewdrop holds the star
The long night through,
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Were all the heavens an overladen bough
Of ripened benediction lowered above me,
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Come to me, Robin! The daylight is dying!
Come to me now!
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I knew she lay above me,
Where the casement all the night
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Far on the brink of day
Thou standest as the herald of the dawn,
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Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
O flakes of snow,
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The Spring in festival array,
From Death to Life, from Night to Day,
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Skim o'er the tide,
And from thy pinions fling
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Within the compass of mine eyes
Behold, a lordly city lies--
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One bird, that ever with the wakening spring
Was wont to sing,
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Where of old, responsive
As the wind and foam,
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For years, an ever-shifting shade
The sunshine of thy visage made;
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Over the sea, over the sea,
My love he is gone to a far countrie;
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Come quickly in and close the door,
For none hath entered here before,
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Orbs of Autumnal beauty, breathed to light
From blooms of May,
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I knew the flowers had dreamed of you,
And hailed the morning with regret;
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Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then, a spark;
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My thoughts fly to thee, as the bees
To find their favorite flower;
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O comrade Sun, that day by day
Dost weave a shadow on my way,
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As on some solitary height
Abides, in summer's fierce despite,
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A part forever dwelt the twain,
Save for one oft-repeated strain
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My sister Sunshine smiled on me,
And of my visage wrought a shade.
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Knew not the Sun, sweet Violet,
The while he gleaned the snow,
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Time shut the door, and turned the key;
And here in darkness (woe is me!)
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New grief, new tears;--
Brief the reign of sorrow;
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At twilight, on the open sea,
We passed, with breath of melody--
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I see thee,--heaven's unclouded face
A vacancy around thee made,
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Says the Land, "O sister Sea,
Had'st thou not borne the voyagers to me,
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Friend forever in the light
Cleaving to my side,
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I am a lonely woodland lake:
The trees that round me grow,
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What hand with spear of light
Hath cleft the side of Night,
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In this narrow cloister bound
Dwells a Sisterhood of Sound,
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How many an acorn falls to die
For one that makes a tree!
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Aye, have we not felt it and known,
Ere Science proclaimed it her own,
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Art thou the selfsame wind that blew
When I was but a boy?
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The god enamoured never knew
The shadow that beguiled his view,
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Old Sorrow I shall meet again,
And Joy, perchance--but never, never,
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Where Youth and Laughter lingered long
To quaff delight, with wanton song
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Alike from depths of joy and sorrow start
The rain-drops of the heart:
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Tell me whither, maiden June,
Down the dusky slope of noon
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Leafless, stemless, floating flower,
From a rainbow's scattered bower,
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He entered; but the mask he wore
Concealed his face from me.
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New-born, how long to stay?
The while a dew-drop may,
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What pleading passion of the dark
Hath left the Morning pale?
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Blind art thou as thy mother Night,
And as thy sister Silence dumb;
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Poor jester! still upon the stage,
Chap-fallen flung,
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Methinks, when first the nightingale
Was mated to thy deathless song,
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Killdee! Killdee! far o'er the lea
At twilight comes the cry.
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O heart that cannot sleep for song!
Behold, I wake with thee,
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A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes,
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He rose, and singing passed from sight:--
A shadow kindling with the sun,
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'Tis thine the earliest song to sing
Of welcome to the wakening spring,
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Lo, where the blooming woodland wakes
O where, the blooming woodland wakes
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For this the fruit, for this the seed,
For this the parent tree;
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Thou hast not toiled, sweet Rose,
Yet needest rest;
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Whence, O fragrant form of light,
Hast thou drifted through the night,
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Said the budding Rose, "All night
Have I dreamed of the joyous light:
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Think not yon star,
New-found afar,
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Sweet violet, who knows
From whence thy fragrance flows
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As Israel, in days of old,
Beneath the prophet's rod,
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Discerning Star from Sister Star,
We give to each its name;
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Discerning Star from Sister Star,
We give to each its name;
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Death in the house, and the golden-rod
A-bloom in the field!
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My life is but a leaf upon the tree--
A growth upon the stem that feedeth all.
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'Tis said, in death, upon the face
Of Age, a momentary trace
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Dull sky above, dead leaves below;
And hungry winds that whining go.
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Night dreams of day, and winter seems
In sleep to breathe the balm of May.
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'Tis Christmas night! the snow,
A flock unnumbered lies:
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To the cradle-bough of a naked tree,
Benumbed with ice and snow,
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Like a meteor, large and bright,
Fell a golden seed of light
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Though long in wintry sleep ye lay,
The powers of darkness could not stay
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All that springeth from the sod
Tendeth upwards unto God;
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Do they that sleep, O Blossoms, yearn,
When ye from them to us return,
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First the grain, and then the blade--
The one destroyed, the other made;
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She brake the box, and all the house was filled
With waftures from the fragrant store thereof,
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"I bring Thee balm, and, lo, Thou art not here!
Twice have I poured mine ointment on Thy brow,
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Thou hast on earth a Trinity,--
Thyself, my fellow-man, and me;
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A dew-drop of the darkness born,
Wherein no shadow lies;
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"Fiat!"--The flaming word
Flashed, as the brooding Bird
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Save through the flesh Thou wouldst not come to me--
The flesh, wherein Thy strength my weakness found
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Nor Bethlehem nor Nazareth
Apart from Mary's care;
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"She hath done what she could."
It was thus that He spake of her,
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Far floating o'er its native fen,
The evening Cloud, like Magdalen--
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"As John of old before His face did go
To make the rough ways smooth, that all might know
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She the mother was of One--
Christ, her Saviour and her Son.
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Soon, but not alone to die,
Kinsman Tree,
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Ah, should they come revisiting the spot
Whence by our prayers we drove them utterly,
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Alone with Thee, who canst not be alone,
At midnight, in Thine everlasting day;
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So \must\ he be who, in the crowded street,
Where shameless Sin and flaunting Pleasure meet,
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Pause where apart the fallen sparrow lies,
And lightly tread;
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Who are thy playmates, boy?
"My favorite is Joy,
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Niva, Child of Innocence,
Dust to dust \we\ go:
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Hark! what his fellow-warblers heard
And uttered in the light,
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Sing it, Mother! sing it low:
Deem it not an idle lay.
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Another lamb, O Lamb of God, behold,
Within this quiet fold,
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Baby in her slumber smiling,
Doth a captive take:
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So fair thy vision that the night
Abided with thee, lest the light,
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At Shelley's birth,
The Lark, dawn-spirit, with an anthem loud
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A light upon the headland, flaming far,
We see thee o'er the widening waves of time,
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The dewdrop holds the heaven above,
Wherein a lark, unseen,
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Snow! Snow! Snow!
Do thy worst, Winter, but know, but know
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O God, the cleanest offering
Of tainted earth below,
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"A nun of Winter's sisterhood,"
A Snowdrop in the garden stood
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Ay, every day the rain doth fall,
And every day doth rise:
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The winds that once my playmates were
No more my voice responsive hear,
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Lo, Death another pebble far doth fling
Into the midmost sea,
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Once only did he pass my way.
"When wilt thou come again?
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Each Hagar month beholds her waning moon
Upon the desert night,
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A leaf may hide the largest star
From Love's uplifted eye;
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Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I.
But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,
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My soul is as a fainting noonday star,
And thou, the absent night;
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Here Fancy far outdoes the deed;
So hath Eternity the need
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A power beyond Perfection's dream is thine,--
A shadow that the dwindling shape outgrows
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The bar is crossed: but Death--the pilot--stands
In seeming doubt before the tranquil deep;
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Ah, not alone in Egypt's desert land
Thy dwelling-place apart!
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One dream the bird and blossom dreamed
Of Love, the whole night long;
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A gleam of heaven; the passion of a Star
Held captive in the clasp of harmony:
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Strong as the sea, and silent as the grave,
It ebbs and flows unseen;
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What art thou, balmy sleep?
"Foam from the fragrant deep
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Amid the desert of a mystic land,
Like Sibyls waiting for a doom far-seen,
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Whate'er we love becomes of us a part;
The centre of all tributary powers--
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Not all the range of sea-born liberty
Hath ever for one restless wave sufficed:
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Behold, upon the field of Night,
Far-scattered seeds of golden light;
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Close cleaving unto Silence, into sound
She ventures as a timorous child from land,
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He prisons many a life indeed
Within the narrow cells of seed,
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A ladder from the Land of Light,
I rest upon the sod,
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Thou art to me as is the sea
Unto the shell;
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Like stars that in the waves below
With heaven's reflected splendor glow,
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What kindly Absence hid, forsooth,
Thy Presence late hath shown;
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One made the surging sea of tone
Subservient to his rod:
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O shadow, in thy fleeting form I see
The friend of fortune that once clung to me.
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What time the countless arrow-heads of light
Keen twinkled on the bended heavens, back-drawn
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Upon thy tomb 'tis graven, "Here lies one
Whose name is writ in water." Could there be
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Temple of God, from all eternity
Alone like Him without beginning found;
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Waiting for words--as on the broad expanse
Of heaven the formless vapors of the night,
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Thou wast to me what to the changing year
Its seasons are,--a joy forever new;
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I knew that he was dying; for the leaves
Late-fallen, shivered on the frosty ground,
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Blood-shotten through the bleak gigantic trees
The sunset, o'er a wilderness of snow,
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As one who in the hush of twilight hears
The pausing pulse of Nature, when the Light
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I wrestled, as did Jacob, till the dawn,
With the reluctant Spirit of the Night
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Erect in death thou standest gaunt and bare,
Thy limbs uplifted to the wintry sky,
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Methinks that if my spirit could behold
Its earthly habitation void and chill,
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A wanderer o'er the sea-graves ever green,
Whereon the foam-flowers blossom day by day,
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How calm upon the twilight water sleeps,
With folded wings, yon solitary sail,
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Ye shrink not wholly from us when the morn
Arises red with slaughter, and the slain
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Altar whereon the lordly sacrifice
Of incense from the reverent vales below
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To die in sleep--to drift from dream to dream
Along the banks of slumber, beckoned on
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Alone I stand upon the sacred height,
Where erst, at noon, the night its mantle flung
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Each has his Angel-Guardian. Mine, I know,
Looks on me from that pictured face. Behold,
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