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First Line: And many voices marshalled in one hymn
Last Line: Vallied the unaccustomed sea.
Variant Title(s): Midnight Hymn; Fragment Fr. The Last Man


And many voices marshalled in one hymn
Wound through the night, whose still, translucent moments
Lay on each side their breath; and the hymn passed
Its long, harmonious populace of words
Between the silvery silences, as when
The slaves of Egypt, like a wind between
The head and trunk of a dismembered king
On a strewn plank, with blood and footsteps sealed,
Vallied the unaccustomed sea.





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