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WINTER MOONLIGHT.
- LOUD‐VOICED night, with the wild wind blowing
- Many a tune;
- Stormy night, with white rain‐clouds going
- Over the moon;
- Mystic night, that each minute changes,
- Now as blue as the mountain‐ranges
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- Far, far away;
- Now as black as a heart where strange is
- Joy, night or day.
- Wondrous moonlight, unlike all moonlights
- Since I was born;
- That on a hundred, bright as noonlights,
- Looks in slow scorn,—
- Moonlights where the old vine‐leaves quiver,
- Moonlights shining on vale and river,
- Where old paths lie;
- Moonlights—Night, blot their like forever
- Out of the sky!
- Hail, new moonlight, fierce, wild, and stormy,
- Wintry and bold!
- Hail, sharp wind, that can strengthen, warm me,
- If ne’er so cold!
- Not chance‐driven this deluge rages,
- ONE doth pour out and ONE assuages;
- Under His hand
- Drifting, Noah‐like, into the ages
- Shall shall touch land.
