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Night

by William Morris

William Morris

I am Night: I bring again
Hope of pleasure, rest from pain:
Thoughts unsaid 'twixt Life and Death
My fruitful silence quickeneth.




Quotes of the Day

I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

• William Butler Yeats



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