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More Than Sweet

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The noisy fire,     The drumming wind,     The creaking trees,     And all that hum     Of summer air     And all the long inquietude     Of breaking seas----     Sweet and delightful are     In loneliness.     But more than these     The quiet light     From the morn's sun     And night's astonished moon,     Falling gently upon breaking seas.     Such quietness     Another beauty is--     Ah, and those stars     So gravely still     More than light, than beauty pour     Upon the strangeness     Of the heart's breaking seas.

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