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I saw the day like some great monarch die, / Gold-couched, behind the clouds' rich tapestries. / Then, purple-sandaled, clad in silences / Of sleep, through halls of skyey lazuli. / The twilight, like a mourning queen, trailed by, / Dim-paged of dreams and shadowy mysteries; / And now the night, the star-robed child of these, / In meditative loveliness draws nigh. / Earth, -- like to Romeo, -- deep in dew and scent, / Beneath Heaven's window, watching till a light, / Like some white blossom, in its square be set, -- / Lifts a faint face unto the firmament, / That, with the moon, grows gradually bright, / Bidding him climb and clasp his Juliet.