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First Line: I love thee, mournful, sober-suited night!
Last Line: May reach -- tho' lost on earth -- the ear of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime


I love thee, mournful, sober-suited Night!
When the faint moon, yet lingering in her wane,
And veil'd clouds, with pale uncertain light
Hangs o'er the waters of the restless main.
In deep depression sunk, the enfeebled mind
Will to the deaf cold elements complain,
And tell the embosom'd grief, however vain,
To sullen surges and the viewless wind.
Tho' no repose on thy dark breast I find,
I still enjoy thee -- cheerless as thou art;
For in thy quiet gloom the exhausted heart
Is calm, tho' wretched; hopeless, yet resign'd.
While to the winds and waves its sorrows given,
May reach -- tho' lost on earth -- the ear of Heaven!





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