| SWEET night, whence sweeter calm doth flow, | |
| Sweet solitude of sea and sky: | |
| Made sweeter far, because I know | |
| That thou with all sweet things must die;— | |
| For beauty fades from out the eye, | 5 |
| And love itself will cease to be; | |
| As summer winds from tropic shores, | |
| Die on the smooth unruffled sea. | |
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| Now, Hesperus, evening star of love | |
| Flings o’er the waves a lane of light; | 10 |
| And constellations from above | |
| Gleam out like di’mond on the sight: | |
| And phosphor, glinting silver-white | |
| From out the deep and dimpled sea, | |
| Looks like another realm of stars | 15 |
| In Heaven’s inverted canopy. | |
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| Sweet double star of love and rest, | |
| That usherest in the hour of sleep; | |
| I watch in grief thy waning crest | |
| Go glimmering down the dusky deep. | 20 |
| While other stars their vespers keep, | |
| My longing thoughts revert to thee, | |
| And follow up thy trail of light | |
| To other heavens beyond the sea. | |
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