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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

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And seldom e'er hath noon of night
To sadness lent more soothing light.
On one side, in the dark blue sky,
Lonely and radiant, was the eye
Of Jove himself, while, on the other,
'Mong tiny stars that round her gleam'd,
The young moon, like the Roman mother
Among her living “jewels,” beamed.