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Who hath not heard in dusky summer dawns, / Ere winds Aurora's horn, the dreamy spell / Just rippled by some drowsy sentinel. / Who from his leafy outpost on the lawns / Chimes sleepily his call that all is well? / A moment -- pipes another silvery note: / Aurora's crystal wheels flash up the sky; / The sentries cry the Dawn and joyously / Glad Welcome peals from every dewy throat, / And every leafy bough chimes melody.
So, in the gloom and silence of the night, / My heart in slumber steeped, unheeding lay, / Not recking how the hours might fleet away; / When on my Heavens dawned a radiant light, / And straight I wakened to a shining day.