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Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.

— McDonald Clarke

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While twilight's curtain gathering far Is pinned with a single diamond star. | Now twilight lets her curtain down, And pins it with a star. | Compare: "And drew my midnight curtain with fingers bloody red", Thomas Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram; "The moon is a silver pinhead vast, That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast", William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.

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Tis vain for present fame to wish--
Our persons first must be forgotten;
For poets are like stinking fish--
They never shine until they're rotten.

The Elixir of Moonshine (1820)

Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-shop appears,
As the red waves of wretchedness swell;
How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years—
The horrible Light-house of Hell!

While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.

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