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power disbands the Northern Lights

After their steely play?

The lonely watcher feels an awe

Of Nature's sway,

As when appearing,

He marked their flashed uprearing

In the cold gloom—

Retreatings and advancings,

(Like dallyings of doom),

Transitions and enhancings,

And bloody ray.

The phantom-host has faded quite,

Splendor and Terror gone—

Portent or promise—and gives way

To pale, meek Dawn;