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The Twilight Hour.

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Slowly I dawn on the sleepless eye,     Like a dreaming thought of eternity;     But darkness hangs on my misty vest,     Like the shade of care on the sleeper's breast;     A light that is felt--but dimly seen,     Like hope that hangs life and death between;     And the weary watcher will sighing say,     "Lord, I thank thee! 'twill soon be day;"     The lingering night of pain is past,     Morning breaks in the east at last.         Mortal!--thou mayst see in me     A type of feeble infancy,--     A dim, uncertain, struggling ray,     The promise of a future day!

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"Slowly I dawn on the sleepless eye,..."

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"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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