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NIGHT.

1 O'er the dim breast of Ocean's wave
2 Night spreads afar her gloomy wings,
3 And pensive thought, and silence brings,
4 Save when the distant waters lave.
5 Or when the mariner's lone voice
6 Swells faintly in the passing gale,
7 Or when the screaming sea-gulls poise
8 O'er the tall mast and swelling sail,
9 Bounding the grey gleam of the deep,
10 Where fancy'd forms arouse the mind,
11 Dark sweep the shores, on whose rude steep
12 Sighs the sad spirit of the wind.
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13 Sweet is its voice upon the air
14 At ev'ning's melancholy close,
15 When the smooth wave in silence flows!
16 Sweet, sweet the peace its stealing accents bear!
17 Blest be thy shades, O Night! and blest the song
18 Thy low winds breathe the distant shores along!

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Title (in Source Edition): NIGHT.
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
Themes: night
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, pp. 34-35. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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