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The Night Cometh

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Cometh the night.    The wind falls low,             The trees swing slowly to and fro:              Around the church the headstones grey              Cluster, like children strayed away             But found again, and folded so.             No chiding look doth she bestow:             If she is glad, they cannot know;              If ill or well they spend their day,                 Cometh the night.             Singing or sad, intent they go;             They do not see the shadows grow;              "There yet is time," they lightly say,              "Before our work aside we lay";             Their task is but half-done, and lo!                 Cometh the night.

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