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 * at last! at last the lingering day
 * Creeps o'er the dewy side of yon dark world.
 * O dawning light already on the hills !
 * O universal earth, and air, and thou,
 * First freshness of the east, which art a breath
 * Breath' d from the rapture of the gods, who bless
 * Almost all other prayers on earth but mine !
 * Wherefore to me is solacing sleep denied ?
 * And honourable rest, the right of all ?
 * So that no medicine of the slumbrous shell,
 * Brimm'd with divinest draughts of melody,
 * Nor silence under dreamful canopies,

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