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The stars at midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place. And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. -WORDSWORTH (_Lyrical Poems_).
The first hour which Ellinor spent with David, uplifted from the gloomy earth into the bosom of the night-they were so unutterably alone, amid the sleeping world with the great, watchful company of the stars! -was one, she knew, that would alter the whole course of her life; the pearly colour of which would thenceforth tint her every emotion.