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Lo! 'tis a gala night / Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight / In veils, and drowned in tears, / Sit in a theatre, to see / A play of hopes and fears, / While the orchestra breathes fitfully / The music of the spheres.