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We watch’d the wintry moon

Suffer her full eclipse

Riding at night’s high noon

Beyond the earth’s ellipse.

The conquering shadow quell’d

Her splendour in its robe:

And darkling we beheld

A dim and lurid globe;

Yet felt thereat no dread,

Nor waited we to see

The sullen dragon fled,

The heav’nly Queen go free.

So if my heart of pain

One hour o’ershadow thine,

I fear for thee no stain,

Thou wilt come forth and shine:

And far my sorrowing shade

Will slip to empty space

Invisible, but made

Happier for that embrace.