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PEACE BY NIGHT, by                    
First Line: A velvet beautiful and dark
Last Line: And blue stars overhead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline


A velvet beautiful and dark
With hunched horizon lines of trees,
A silence boundaried by stars:
I will remember these;

And all our speech resolved into
An utter impotence of words,
Helplessly mute with living song
Like dream-bewildered birds.

Beyond this time of breathing peace,
This moth-still mystery of night,
I shall not need the dawn's elate
Apocalypse of light.

Leave me this hour of deep content
With darkness upon darkness spread,
Your face against its velvet set,
And blue stars overhead.





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