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The Aurora Borealis

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Now have I grown a sharpness and an edge     Unto my future nights, and I will cut     Sheer through the ebon gates that yet will shut     On every set of day; or as a sledge     Drawn over snowy plains; where not a hedge     Breaks this Aurora's dancing, nothing but     The one cold Esquimaux' unlikely hut     That swims in the broad moonlight! Lo, a wedge     Of the clean meteor hath been brightly driven     Right home into the fastness of the north!     Anon it quickeneth up into the heaven!     And I with it have clomb and spreaded forth     Upon the crisp and cooling atmosphere!     My soul is all abroad: I cannot find it here!

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