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Like a long arrow through the dark the train / is darting, / Bearing me far away, after a perfect day of / love's delight: / Wakeful with all the sad-sweet memories of / parting, / I lift the narrow window-shade and look out / on the night.
Lonely the land unknown, and like a river flow- / ing, / Forest and field and hill are gliding backward / still athwart my dream; / Till in that country strange, and ever stranger / growing, / A magic city full of lights begins to glow and / gleam.