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[Oh, what shall lift the night]
Oh
, what shall lift the night,
The lightning or the moon?
There is no other light,
The day is gone too soon.
The lightning or the moon?
There is no other light,
The day is gone too soon.
The lightning with his flash
An instant and no more,
Is as an angel's lash
Smiting the dusk-loved shore.
An instant and no more,
Is as an angel's lash
Smiting the dusk-loved shore.
The moon with trembling light
From her pale shell of sleep
Shall kindlier break the night
Of yon thick clouds that weep.
From her pale shell of sleep
Shall kindlier break the night
Of yon thick clouds that weep.
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