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Songs of Travel

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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IX

Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams,
      Beauty awake from rest!
      Let Beauty awake
      For Beauty’s sake
In the hour when the birds awake in the brake
      And the stars are bright in the west!

Let Beauty awake in the eve from the slumber of day,
      Awake in the crimson eve!
      In the day’s dusk end
      When the shades ascend,
Let her wake to the kiss of a tender friend
      To render again and receive!

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