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A SUMMER NIGHT by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS

First Line: HER SOFT, COOL ARMS EXTENDING, / NIGHT COMES ANEW
Last Line: WITH IT MIGHT GO!
Subject(s): NIGHT; SUMMER; BEDTIME;
HER soft, cool arms extending,
Night comes anew;
Fields, woods, and meadows clasping
Her heart unto;

With mantle light enwrapping
Each tree and bush,
While murmuring tones the world
To dreams doth hush.

The earth hath now forgotten
Day's misery;
Mine eyes I lift in longing
Toward the sky.

I see a wee bird soaring
In sunset's glow:
Ah, would my heart, so weary,
With it might go!



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