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34 NATURE

A MOONLIGHT NIGHT IN SAN MATEO

THOURT very lovely, when as now, O Night, The brilliant blue of heaven looks adown, One broad expanse of brightness; and the brown Old mountains robe themselves in soft moonlight! My study window looks out on a sight Of rarest beauty. See, the moon has thrown From shore to shore, across the waters, prone Over St. Francis Bay, of broad beams bright, A massy bridge of silver! Pitying Moon, Dost thou see where, three thousand miles away, Lone, in their lonely house, my loved ones sleep, And dream perchance of one returning soon; While, on the hill-top near, thy tender ray Falls on two graves o'er which the night dews weep?

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