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NIGHT SONG by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING

First Line: THE ROAD RUNS UP AGAINST THE STARS
Last Line: FOR I AM HERE ALONE.
Subject(s): NIGHT; SOLITUDE; BEDTIME; LONELINESS;
THE road runs up against the stars,
Cool stars low-swinging in the night.
The valley-guarded river gleams,
The pear-trees glimmer white.

A little wind walks in content
Along the quiet star-filled wood.
This is the very road we went
And here is where we stood.

What unseen whisperers are these
Whose voices I have always known?
Only the happy heaven-heard trees,
For I am here alone.



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