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The cold earth slept below, / Above the cold sky shone; / And all around, with a chilling sound, / From caves of ice and fields of snow, / The breath of night like death did flow / Beneath the sinking moon.
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The wintry hedge was black, / The green grass was not seen, / The birds did rest on the bare thorn's breast, / Whose roots, beside the pathway track, / Had bound their folds o'er many a crack / Which the frost had made between.
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Thine eyes glowed in the glare / Of the moon's dying light; / As a fen-fire's beam on a sluggish stream / Gleams dimly, so the moon shone there, / And it yellowed the strings of thy raven hair, / That shook in the wind of night.
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The moon made thy lips pale, beloved- / The wind made thy bosom chill- / The night did shed on thy dear head / Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie / Where the bitter breath of the naked sky / Might visit thee at will.