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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - In The Harbour: ChimesHenry Wadsworth Longfellow - In The Harbour: Chimes
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Sweet chimes! that in the loneliness of night   Salute the passing hour, and in the dark   And silent chambers of the household mark   The movements of the myriad orbs of light! Through my closed eyelids, by the inner sight,   I see the constellations in the arc   Of their great circles moving on, and hark!   I almost hear them singing in their flight. Better than sleep it is to lie awake,   O`er-canopied by the vast starry dome   Of the immeasurable sky; to feel The slumbering world sink under us, and make   Hardly an eddy,--a mere rush of foam   On the great sea beneath a sinking keel.
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