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Night And Morning

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The great brightness of the burning of the stars,     Little frightened love,     Is like your eyes,     When in the heavy dusk     You question the dark blue shadows,     Fearing an evil.     Below the night     The one clear line of dawn;     As it were your head     Where there is one golden hair     Though your hair is very brown.     From the Arabic (School of Ebn-el-Moattaz) (ninth century).

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