Behind each thing a shadow lies; Beauty hath e'er its cost: Within the moonlight-flooded skies How many stars are lost!
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"Behind each thing a shadow lies;..."
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"Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Closes with night's accomplished certainty, A wizard wind goes crying eerily;"
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"Above its domes the gulfs accumulate To where the sea-winds trumpet forth their screed; But here the buried waters take no"
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"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky, And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, S"
"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"
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