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Thoughts in a Tranquil Night

Athwart the bed

I watch the moonbeams cast a trail

So Bright, so cold, so frail,

That for a space it gleams

Like hoar-frost on the margin of my dreams.

I raise my head,

The splendid moon I see

I droop my head,

And to dreams of  --

My Fatherland, of thee!