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_How long is the night, brother, / And how long is the day? _ / Oh, the day's too short for a happy task, / And the day's too short for play; / And the night's too short for the bliss of love, / For look, how the edge of the sky grows gray, / While the stars die out in the blue above, / And the wan moon fades away.
_How short is the day, brother, / And how short is the night? _ / Oh, the day's too long for a heavy task, / And long, long, long is the night, / When the wakeful hours are filled with pain, / And the sad heart waits for the thing it fears, / And sighs for the dawn to come again, -- / The night is a thousand years!
_How long is a life, dear God, / And how fast does it flow? _ / The measure of life is a flame in the soul: / It is neither swift nor slow.
But the vision of time is the shadow cast / By the fleeting world on the body's wall; / When it fades there is neither future nor past, / But love is all in all.