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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
 How lovely are the portals of the night,
 When stars come out to watch the daylight die.  
 How lovely are the portals of the night,
 When stars come out to watch the daylight die. 
 The summer day is closed, the sun is set:
 Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
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 The summer day is closed, the sun is set:
 Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
   In the red west. 
 Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
 The sun has left the lea,
  The orange flower perfumes read more 
 Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
 The sun has left the lea,
  The orange flower perfumes the bower,
   The breeze is on the sea. 
 'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down
 Over the waste of waters; like a veil,
  Which, read more 
 'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down
 Over the waste of waters; like a veil,
  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown
   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. 
 The sunbeams dropped
 Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,
  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and read more 
 The sunbeams dropped
 Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,
  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,
   As if the very Day paused and grew Eve. 
 Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by,
 And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.  
 Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by,
 And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. 
 Parting day
 Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues
  With a new colour as it gasps read more 
 Parting day
 Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues
  With a new colour as it gasps away,
   The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray. 
 Fair Venus shines
 Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam
  Propitious shines, and shakes a read more 
 Fair Venus shines
 Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam
  Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood
   Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.