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O Night! most beautiful and rare!
Thou givest the heavens their holiest hue,
And through the azure fields of air
Bringest down the gentle dew.

— Thomas Buchanan Read Poems (1847)

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'givest' for 'giv'st', Bring'st for 'Bringest'

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We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.

The New Pastoral (1855)

O Night, most beautiful and rare!
Thou giv'st the heavens their holiest hue,
And through the azure fields of air
Bring'st down the gentle dew.

My soul to-day
Is far away
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

Poems (1866)

Within the sober realm of leafless trees,
The russet year inhaled the dreamy air;
Like some tanned reaper, in his hour of ease,
When all the fields are lying brown and bare.

Poems (1853)

The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.

A Summer Story, Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems (1865)

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