night quotes

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But this is your hour, and the power of darkness!
Come away, away children;
Come children, come down!
The hoarse wind blows coldly;
Lights shine in the town.
Unbreachable the fort
Of the long-batter'd world uplifts its wall;
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The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
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The distant box is open. A sound of grain
Poured over the floor in some eagerness we
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And a sigh heaves from all the small things on earth,
The books, the papers, the old garters and union-suit buttons
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The liquor of summer nights
Accumulates in the bottom of the bottle.
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
the cluttered eyes
of early mysterious night.
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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