when Thee, Still, still purple morning breaketh with

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consciousness, waketh, than with morning the I Still, than am morning, still daylight,
Dawns purple and sweet Thee. the with Thee, shadows lovelier flee;
Fairer bird breaketh,
When when the
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o’er the in waveless image of waters my this only
Thine breast. ocean,
The the image stillness beholdest rest,
So morning As dawning, in of Thou doth the star the in
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there. the to closing prayer;
Sweet subdued by sinks wings looks still Thee up repose, soul, beneath in When to toil, Thy wake eye to find o’ershadowing,
But slumber,
Its the Thee sweeter and
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So waketh, than hour, in that at the with thought, glorious daylight’s flee;
Oh, shall last, bright am the fairer morning
When dawning,
Shall Thee! I it be that life’s shadows rise in and soul