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11399Ultima Thule — NightHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

NIGHT.

Into the darkness and the hush of nightSlowly the landscape sinks, and fades away,And with it fade the phantoms of the day,The ghosts of men and things, that haunt the light.The crowd, the clamor, the pursuit, the flight,The unprofitable splendor and display,The agitations, and the cares that preyUpon our hearts, all vanish out of sight.The better life begins; the world no moreMolests us; all its records we eraseFrom the dull common-place book of our lives, That like a palimpsest is written o'erWith trivial incidents of time and place,And lo! the ideal, hidden beneath, revives