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- 0:00Speaker 1: Twas noontide of summer and midtime of night, and stars
- 0:05Speaker 1: in their orbits shone pale through the light of the
- 0:09Speaker 1: brighter cold moon mid planets, her slaves herself in the heavens,
- 0:16Speaker 1: her beam on the waves. I gazed awhile on her
- 0:21Speaker 1: cold smile, too cold, too cold for me. There pass'd
- 0:27Speaker 1: as a shroud, a fleecy cloud, and I turn'd away
- 0:31Speaker 1: to thee proud evening star in thy glorier far and
- 0:37Speaker 1: dearer thy beam shall be. For joy to my heart
- 0:41Speaker 1: is the proud part thou bearest in heaven at night.
- 0:45Speaker 1: And more I admire thy distant fire than that colder,
- 0:51Speaker 1: lowly light