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CHOPIN'S NOCTURNE IN G MINOR by ARLO BATES

First Line: FAINT THROUGH THE TWILIGHT HAZES
Last Line: THE ANGELUS DIES AFAR.
Subject(s): CHOPIN, FREDERIC FRANCOIS (1810-1849);
Faint through the twilight hazes
Shimmers one palpitant star;
Faint through the woodland mazes
The Angelus sounds afar.

Only the brook's murmur golden
Falls on the wanderer's ear;
Voices of memories olden
The soul holds breath to hear.

Voices of joy and sorrow
Vanished and far away
As the dawn of the sun-bathed morrow
Seems from this dying day,

When faint through the twilight hazes
Shimmers eve's palpitant star;
And faint through the woodland mazes
The Angelus dies afar.



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