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NIGHT by ALCMAN

First Line: THE FAR PEAKS SLEEP, THE GREAT RAVINES
Last Line: AND EVERY BIRD, ITS WIDE WINGS FOLDED, SLEEPS.
Subject(s): NIGHT; BEDTIME;
THE far peaks sleep, the great ravines,
The foot-hills, and the streams.
Asleep are trees, and hived bees,
The mountain beasts, and all that dark earth teems,
The glooming seas, the monsters in their deeps:
And every bird, its wide wings folded, sleeps.



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