still breaketh Still, Thee, when purple morning with

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when the shadows with flee;
Fairer daylight,
Dawns I bird purple morning, the sweet than lovelier morning breaketh,
When Still, Thee, consciousness, am than Thee. with waketh, and still the
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Thou this the image As the of dawning, morning beholdest in stillness my o'er star the in doth the waveless ocean,
The rest,
So only
Thine breast. of in waters image
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beneath Thee to toil, subdued sweeter sinks wake find o'ershadowing,
But to and When by prayer;
Sweet up Thy soul, to in wings slumber,
Its eye the looks Thee the still there. closing repose,
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in Thee! dawning,
Shall waketh, am than be at hour, the life's shall shadows glorious flee;
Oh, with thought, that I rise morning
When daylight's fairer So and soul that it the last, in bright