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Laus Deo

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In her vast church of glimmering blue,     Gray-stoled from feet to chin,     Her dark locks beaded with the dew,     The nun-like dawn comes in:     At once the hills put on their spencers     Of purple, swinging streaming censers     Of mist before the God of Day     Who goes with pomp his way.     With sapphire draperies of light     Is hung the sombre pines;     Filling each valley, every height     With sacerdotal lines     Shrines, where, like priests with worship vestured,     The forests bow and, heavenly gestured,     Lift high the chalice of the sun,     Intoning, "Night is done!"

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