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148 Reveals itself the sleeping, quiet world, Painted in tender grays and whites subdued— The speckled stream with flakes of light impearled, The wide, soft meadow and the massive wood. Naught is too wild for our credulity In this weird hour : our finest dreams hold good. Quaint elves and frolic flower-sprites we see, And fairies weaving rings of gossamer, And angels floating through the filmy air.

Let us go in : the air is dank and chill With dewy midnight, and the moon rides high O er ghostly fields, pale stream, and spectral hill. This hour the dawn seems farthest from the sky So weary long the space that h es between That sacred joy and this dark mystery Of earth and heaven : no glimmering is seen, In the star-sprinkled east, of coming day, Nor, westward, of the splendor that hath been. Strange fears beset us, nameless terrors sway The brooding soul, that hungers for her rest, Outworn with changing moods, vain hopes delay,