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154 And twilight nook,

Unveils thy form.

Out of the forest way

Forth paced it yesterday;

And when I sat by the watercourse,

Watching the daylight fade,

It throbbed up from the brook.

'River, and rose, and crag, and bird,

Frost, and sun, and eldest night,

To me their aid preferred,

To me their comfort plight;—

"Courage! we are thine allies,

And with this hint be wise,—

The chains of kind

The distant bind;

Deed thou doest she must do,

Above her will, be true;

And, in her strict resort

To winds and waterfalls,

And autumn's sunlit festivals,

To music, and to music's thought,