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By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream / That like a whisper floats about all men, / The deep and brooding stillnesses which seem, / After the hour has struck, to close again.
And when the day with drowsy gesture bends / And sinks to sleep beneath the evening skies, / As from each roof a tower of smoke ascends -- / So does Thy Realm, my God, around me rise.