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To A Star.

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Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome scene     Through fleecy clouds of silvery radiance fliest,     Spanglet of light on evening's shadowy veil,     Which shrouds the day-beam from the waveless lake,     Lighting the hour of sacred love; more sweet     Than the expiring morn-star's paly fires: -     Sweet star! When wearied Nature sinks to sleep,     And all is hushed, - all, save the voice of Love,     Whose broken murmurings swell the balmy blast     Of soft Favonius, which at intervals     Sighs in the ear of stillness, art thou aught but     Lulling the slaves of interest to repose     With that mild, pitying gaze? Oh, I would look     In thy dear beam till every bond of sense     Became enamoured -

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