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LIGHT AND NIGHT
Nay, but what shall satisfy?
—This: the swift alternate racing
When the sunlit shadows fly
From the shadowy sunlight’s chasing
Footsteps following nigh.
Broken darkness, broken light,
Knowledge knit with mystery,
Glory temper’d with a sigh—
Man’s inconstant spirit-sight
Needs a shifting sky;
Joy, with sorrow; wrong, with right;
Light, with Night!
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