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A night of tears! for the gusty rain
Had ceased, but the eaves were dripping yet;
And the moon look'd forth, as tho' in pain,
With her face al white and wet.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton The Wanderer (1859)

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Source: Book ii: In France, "The Portrait", p. 149.
Work: The Wanderer, 1859
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