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AN OLD MASTER by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE

First Line: I SAW A PICTURE YESTERNIGHT
Last Line: THE WHITE-PURE MOON LOOKED OUT.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; MOON; STORMS; TRANSIENCE; IMPERMANENCE;

@2I@1 SAW a picture yesternight,
By a most ancient Master done;
Ah me! its beauty smote so bright
I saw it, and—'t was gone.

Dark were the woods, and dark the plain,
And dark clouds drifted all about,
When from a storm-heart rent in twain
The white-pure Moon looked out.



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