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The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,
A night seems termless hell.
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For life is but a dream whose shapes return,
Some frequently, some seldom, some by night
And some by day.
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The City is of Night; perchance of Death,
But certainly of Night; for never there
Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath
After the dewy dawning's cold grey air.
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Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?
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Born:
November 23, 1834
Died:
June 3, 1882
(aged 47)
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