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Fantasia
By Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921)[From Poems. 1882.]
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The moon and stars are dead and gone;
The night’s at deep, the wind asleep,
And thou and I are all alone!
Tumult and life are not for me!
Silence and sleep about us creep;
Tumult and life are not for thee!
Had topped the height of breathing bliss!
And now we keep an iron sleep,—
In that grave thou, and I in this!