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DEW.
While the one star flutters in golden blue,Over the sweet young moon, and everything
Clasps slumber to the heart—with folded wing
All vulture-cares—breathes down the loving Dew,
God's benediction o'er the cradled Day.
All things that breathe the sunshine everywhere,
Leaves, flowers that hold their prayerful faces fair,
Purest of all earth's children, as to pray—
All the sweet blessing feel, tree, flower and weed,
And man's wide soul: the restless Ocean billows
And the Soul's waves—a peace the stars to view!
O emblem sweet of God's sweet love! The need
The prayer, the gift. Lo! on their quiet pillows
All things are lying in God's falling Dew!
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