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 BY JOHN OREENLEAF WETTTIER.

TrWAS night. The tranquil moonlight smile '
.I With which Heaven dreams of' Earth ehed down .
Its beauty on Lhe Indian idl:,-
 On broad green field and white-walled town; :
 And inland waste of rcik and wood,
 In scarhbini sunhbinv, wild and rude,
 Rose. mellowed through the silver gleam,
 Soft as the landscape of a dream,
 All motionless and dewy wet,
 Tree, vine, and flower in shadow net:
 The myrtle with its snowy bloom,
 Crossing the nightslade's solemn gloom,-
 The white ceerropia's silver rind
 Relieved by ide per :recn behind,-
 The orange with iit fruit ol guptl,-
 The lithe paullinia's virdlaut Ibld, -
 The passi'..n-lowii r, with symboll holy,
 Twining its tendlrils I.og and lowly,-
 The rhexia. dark, anid icasia tall,
 And prouilly ri-ing ove-r all,
 The kingly palm'P imperial stem,
 Crownd with its leal'~ diadem,
 Star-like, lx n-ath who-:- s-mbre shade,
 The fiery-winged cuclllo played !
 Ye ,- loveli:er was thine aspect, then,
 Fair i-landl of the W'etern Sea!
 Lavish o.' beauty, (even when
 Thy brut.: were happier than thy men,
 For they, at leat, were fIee I


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