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Alfred Austin - A Sleepless Night
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Within the hollow silence of the night
 I lay awake and listened. I could hear
 Planet with punctual planet chiming clear,
 And unto star star cadencing aright.
 Nor these alone: cloistered from deafening sight,
 All things that are, made music to my ear:
 Hushed woods, dumb caves, and many a soundless mere,
 With Arctic mains in rigid sleep locked tight.
 But ever with this chant from shore and sea,
 From singing constellation, humming thought,
 And life through time`s stops blowing variously,
 A melancholy undertone was wrought;
 And from its boundless prison—house I caught
 The awful wail of lone Eternity.
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