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Softly the first step of twilight / Falls on the darkening dial, / One by one kindle the lights / In Mitylene.
Noises are hushed in the courtyard, / The busy day is departing, / Children are called from their games, -- / Herds from their grazing.
And from the deep-shadowed angles / Comes the soft murmur of lovers, / Then through the quiet of dusk / Bright sudden laughter.
From the hushed street, through the portal, / Where soon my lover will enter, / Comes the pure strain of a flute / Tender with passion.