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NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: HEART-HIDDEN FROM THE OUTER THINGS I ROSE
Last Line: THE PLANETS MAY DIVIDE.
Subject(s): DAY; NIGHT; TIME; BEDTIME;

HEART-HIDDEN from the outer things I rose;
The spirit woke anew in nightly birth
Unto the vastness where forever glows
The star-soul of the earth.

There all alone in primal ecstasy,
Within her depths where revels never tire,
The olden Beauty shines: each thought of me
Is veined through with its fire.

And all my thoughts are throngs of living souls;
They breathe in me, heart unto heart allied;
Their joy undimmed, though when the morning tolls
The planets may divide.



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