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<h2><SPAN name="TWILIGHT_VOICES" id="TWILIGHT_VOICES"></SPAN>TWILIGHT VOICES</h2>
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<span class="i0">Now, at the hour when ignorant mortals<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Drowse in the shade of their whirling sphere,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Heaven and Hell from invisible portals<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Breathing comfort and ghastly fear,<br/></span>
<span class="i6">Voices I hear;<br/></span><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></SPAN>[27]</span>
<span class="i0">I hear strange voices, flitting, calling,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Wavering by on the dusky blast,—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">'Come, let us go, for the night is falling;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Come, let us go, for the day is past!'<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Troops of joys are they, now departed?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Winged hopes that no longer stay?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Powers that have linger'd their latest day?<br/></span>
<span class="i6">What do they say?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">What do they sing? I hear them calling,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Whispering, gathering, flying fast,—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">'Come, come, for the night is falling;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Come, come, for the day is past!'<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Sing they to me?—'Thy taper's wasted;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Mortal, thy sands of life run low;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Thine hours like a flock of birds have hasted:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Time is ending;—we go, we go.'<br/></span>
<span class="i6">Sing they so?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Mystical voices, floating, calling;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Dim farewells—the last, the last?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Come, come away, the night is falling;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">'Come, come away, the day is past.'<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">See, I am ready, Twilight voices!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Child of the spirit-world am I;<br/></span><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></SPAN>[28]</span>
<span class="i0">How should I fear you? my soul rejoices,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">O speak plainer! O draw nigh!<br/></span>
<span class="i6">Fain would I fly!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Tell me your message, Ye who are calling<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Out of the dimness vague and vast;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Lift me, take me,—the night is falling;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Quick, let us go,—the day is past.<br/></span></div>
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