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Night

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He cried out through the night:     "Where is the light?     Shall nevermore     Open Heaven's door?     Oh, I am left     Lonely, bereft!" He cried out through the night:     It spread vaguely white,     With its ghost of a moon     Above the dark swoon     Of the earth lying chill,     Breathless, grave still. He cried out through the night:     His voice in its might     Rang forth far and far,      And then like a star     Dwindled from sense     In the Immense. He cried out through the night:     No answering light,     No syllabled sound;     Beneath and around     A long shuddering thrill     Then all again still.

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