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Serenade · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Serenade, so sweet the hour, so calm the time. I
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  Speaker 1: feel it more than half a crime, when nature sleeps
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  Speaker 1: and stars are mute, to mar the silence even with lute.
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  Speaker 1: At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes, an image of Elysium lies.
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  Speaker 1: Seven Pleiades entranced in heaven, form in the deep another seven.
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  Speaker 1: And Demian, nodding from above, sees in the sea a
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  Speaker 1: second love. Within the valleys dim and brown, and on
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  Speaker 1: the spectral mountains crown, the wearied light is dying down,
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  Speaker 1: and earth and stars and sea and sky are redolent
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  Speaker 1: of sleep. as I am redolent of thee and thine,
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  Speaker 1: enthralling love, my Adeline. But list, oh list, so soft
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  Speaker 1: and low, thy lover's voice to night shall flow, that,
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  Speaker 1: scarce awake, thy soul shall deem, my words the music
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  Speaker 1: of a dream. Thus, while no single sound too rude
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  Speaker 1: upon thy slumber shall intrude, our thoughts, our souls, O
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  Speaker 1: God above, in every deed shall mingle love.