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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Remorse. (From August Von Platen)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Remorse. (From August Von Platen)
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How I started up in the night, in the night,   Drawn on without rest or reprieval! The streets, with their watchmen, were lost to my sight,   As I wandered so light   In the night, in the night, Through the gate with the arch mediaeval. The mill-brook rushed from the rocky height,   I leaned o`er the bridge in my yearning; Deep under me watched I the waves in their flight,   As they glided so light   In the night, in the night, Yet backward not one was returning. O`erhead were revolving, so countless and bright,   The stars in melodious existence; And with them the moon, more serenely bedight;--   They sparkled so light   In the night, in the night, Through the magical, measureless distance. And upward I gazed in the night, in the night,   And again on the waves in their fleeting; Ah woe! thou hast wasted thy days in delight,   Now silence thou light,   In the night, in the night, The remorse in thy heart that is beating.
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