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Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime.

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  1. There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness.
  2. Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race.
  3. But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
  4. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move.
  5. I cannot reach it, and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity.
  6. I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours…
  7. They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth c…
  8. I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days, My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering a…

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