Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hymn to the Night

I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hymn to the Night lines 1–4 first published 1839

Edition: Voices of the Night (1839)
Read the whole text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices_of_the_Night/Hymn_to_the_Night
Rights: Public domain: Longfellow died in 1882; this edition was published in 1839.

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