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SONNET.
Oft when the moon has sunk beneath the night,Nor gladdens heaven with her golden eye,
A fitful meteor burning in the sky
May bring the outline of his path in sight
To some belated shepherd. By its light
The wold is brightened, the far hills seem nigh
At whose dark feet his lonely hut doth lie,
And thankfully he guides his steps aright.
So when the world, beneath a weight of doom,
Seemed reeling on through darkness, vague and blind,
Some transitory brightness might illume
The great interlunation of the mind,—
Some dim presentiment, that through the gloom
A better light should rise to bless mankind.
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