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THE MIDDLE WATCH
Vainly we watch the deep below,Vainly the void above,They died a thousand years ago—Life and the land we love.
But over the endless plain,Out of the night forlornRises a faint refrain,A song of the day to be born—Watch, oh watch till ye find againLife and the land of morn.
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