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WHERE echo ne’er hath found
A footing on the steep,
Descends, without a sound,
The cataract of sleep.
Like swallows in the spray,
When evening is near
The thronging thoughts of day
About the brink appear ;
Till greets a heaven below
A sister heaven above,
Alike with stars aglow
Of unextinguished love.
Source: Atlantic Monthly, September 1896