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Chapter 2 | |
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NIGHT, parent goddess, source of sweet repose, |
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From whom at first both Gods and men arose, |
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Hear, blessed Venus, deck'd with starry light, |
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In sleep's deep silence dwelling Ebon night! |
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Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train, |
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Pleas'd with the length'ned gloom and feaftful strain. |
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Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth, |
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With darkling coursers riding round the earth. |
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Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, |
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Whose drowsy pow'r divides the nat'ral day: |
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By Fate's decree you constant send the light |
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To deepest hell, remote from mortal sight |
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For dire Necessity which nought withstands, |
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Invests the world with adamantine bands. |
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Be present, Goddess, to thy suppliant's pray'r, |
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Desir'd by all, whom all alike revere, |
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Blessed, benevolent, with friendly aid |
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Dispell the fears of Twilight's dreadful shade. |
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