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A Winter Night
IT was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glittering on the ground, And evening stars were twinkling bright; And from the gloomy plain around Came no sound, But where, within the wood-girt tower, The churchbell slowly struck the hour;
As if that all of human birth Had risen to the final day, And soaring from the worn-out earth Were called in hurry and dismay Far away; And I alone of all mankind Were left in loneliness behind.
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