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WHEN THE LAMP IS QUENCHED by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR

First Line: YOUR CASEMENT BRIGHT ATHWART THE NIGHT
Last Line: SOME HEART—SOME LIFE—HAS CEASED TO BEAT!
Subject(s): DOUBT; HOPE; LIGHT; SKEPTICISM; OPTIMISM;

Your casement bright athwart the night
Gleams steadfastly—a golden square!
And I'm thrilled through for love of you
With hope that laughs away despair!

Lo, the lamp's out! Dark night and doubt
Rush in where erst was solace sweet;
And suddenly it seems to me
Some heart—some life—has ceased to beat!



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