Hymn to the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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1807 to 1882

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I heard the trailing garments of the Night
    through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts fringed with light
   From the celestial walls!

I her presence, by its spell of might,
   Stoop o’er me from above;
The calm, majestic presence of the Night,
   As of the one I love.

I heard sounds of sorrow and delight,
   The manifold, soft chimes,
That fill the haunted chambers of the Night
    some old poet’s rhymes.

From the cool cisterns of midnight air
   My spirit drank repose;
The fountain perpetual peace flows there,—
   From those deep flows.

O holy Night! from thee I learn to
   What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy on the lips of Care,
   And they complain more.

Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer!
    with broad-winged flight,
The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the fair,
   The best-beloved Night!

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