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light of sunset glows and glares
 * Between two banks of cloud, and o'er the brine
 * Thy fair lamp on the sky's carnation line

Alone on the lone promontory flares: Friend of the Fisher who at nightfall fares
 * Where lurk false reefs masked by the hyaline
 * Of dimpling waves, within whose smile divine

Death lies in wait behind Circean snares.

The evening knows thee ere the evening star;
 * Or sees thy flame sole Regent of the bight,

When storm, hoarse rumoured by the hills afar,
 * Makes mariners steer landward by thy light,

Which shows through shock of hostile nature's war
 * How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night.