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ILD Splendor of the various-vested Night! Mother of wildly-working visions! hail! I watch thy gliding, while with watry light Thy weak eye glimmers thro' a fleecy veil; And when thou lovest thy pale orb to shroud Behind the gather'd blackness lost on high; And when thou dartest from the wind-rent cloud Thy placid lightning o'er th' awaken'd sky. Ah such is ! as changeful and as fair! Now dimly peering on the wistful light; Now hid behind the dragon-wing'd Despair: But soon emerging in her radiant might She o'er the sorrow-clouded breast of Care Sails, like a meteor kindling in it's flight.