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When chirping crickets fainter cry, / And pale stars blossom in the sky, / And twilight's gloom has dimmed the bloom / And blurred the butterfly:
When locust-blossoms fleck the walk, / And up the tiger-lily stalk / The glow-worm crawls and clings and falls / And glimmers down the garden-walls:
When buzzing things, with double wings / Of crisp and raspish flutterings, / Go whizzing by so very nigh / One thinks of fangs and stings: --
O then, within, is stilled the din / Of crib she rocks the baby in, / And heart and gate and latch's weight / Are lifted -- and the lips of Kate.