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MIDNIGHT by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: A FLOOD OF DARKNESS OVERWHELMS THE LAND
Last Line: IN EGYPT, STEM THE NIGHT.
Subject(s): SLEEP;
A flood of darkness overwhelms the land;
And all that God had planned,
Of loveliness beneath the noonday skies,
A dream o'ershadowed lies.

Amid the universal darkness deep
Only the Isles of Sleep,
As did the dwellings of the Israelite
In Egypt, stem the night.



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