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Herman Melville - Aurora Borealis
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_Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace_
May, 1865

What power disbands the Northern Lights
  After their steely play?
The lonely watcher feels an awe
  Of Nature`s sway,
    As when appearing,
    He marked their flashed uprearing
  In the cold gloom--
  Retreatings and advancings,
(Like dallyings of doom),
  Transitions and enhancings,
      And bloody ray.

The phantom-host has faded quite,
  Splendor and Terror gone
Portent or promise--and gives way
  To pale, meek Dawn;
    The coming, going,
    Alike in wonder showing--
  Alike the God,
  Decreeing and commanding
The million blades that glowed,
  The muster and disbanding--
      Midnight and Morn.
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