The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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My morning and my evening star of love!
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Upon its midnight battle-ground
The spectral camp is seen,
And, with a sorrowful, deep sound,
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And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
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