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At Midnight Hour.

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At midnight hour I went, not willingly,     A little, little boy, yon churchyard past,     To Father Vicar's house; the stars on high     On all around their beauteous radiance cast,      At midnight hour.     And when, in journeying o'er the path of life,     My love I follow'd, as she onward moved,     With stars and northern lights o'er head in strife,     Going and coming, perfect bliss I proved      At midnight hour.     Until at length the full moon, lustre-fraught,     Burst thro' the gloom wherein she was enshrined;     And then the willing, active, rapid thought     Around the past, as round the future twined,      At midnight hour.

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