Parerga/Midnight

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MIDNIGHT.

FROM STATIUS.

Scandebat roseo medii fastigia cœliLuna jugo. Totis ubi Somnus inertior allsDefluit in terras, mutumque amplectitur orbem.
It was the night. In beauteous majestyThe Moon was going up through her dominionsIn the mid concave of the cloudless sky.It was the hour when Sleep unfolds his pinionsIn amplest shelter, and sinks hoveringlyMore and more effortless on eyelids blest,Folding the whole wide world in deep unmurmuring rest.
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