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A WINTER NIGHT
Let others laud the summer's languorous lightAnd lucid glow;
For me this dim, unruly winter night,
Wild winds that blow!
Without, uproar and storm upon the pane,
Turmoil and cries;
The loud lamenting of the hurricane,
The sleet that flies!
Within, this satisfying silence deep,
With no desire;
An apathy divine, surpassing sleep,
And kindly fire.
That outward conflict brings an inward truce
Within this breast.
The elemental strife doth but induce
A deeper rest.
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