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Watchman what of the night	A
Storm and thunder and rain	B
Lights that waver and wane	B
Leaving the watchfires unlit	A
Only the balefires are bright	A
And the flash of the lamps now and then	C
From a palace where spoilers sit	A
Trampling the children of men	C
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Prophet what of the night	A
I stand by the verge of the sea	D
Banished uncomforted free	D
Hearing the noise of the waves	E
And sudden flashes that smite	A
Some man's tyrannous head	A
Thundering heard among graves	E
That hide the hosts of his dead	A
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Mourners what of the night	A
All night through without sleep	F
We weep and we weep and we weep	F
Who shall give us our sons	G
Beaks of raven and kite	A
Mouths of wolf and of hound	A
Give us them back whom the guns	G
Shot for you dead on the ground	A
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Dead men what of the night	A
Cannon and scaffold and sword	A
Horror of gibbet and cord	A
Mowed us as sheaves for the grave	H
Mowed us down for the right	A
We do not grudge or repent	A
Freely to freedom we gave	H
Pledges till life should be spent	A
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Statesman what of the night	A
The night will last me my time	I
The gold on a crown or a crime	I
Looks well enough yet by the lamps	J
Have we not fingers to write	A
Lips to swear at a need	A
Then when danger decamps	J
Bury the word with the deed	A
	-
Warrior what of the night	A
Whether it be not or be	D
Night is as one thing to me	D
I for one at the least	A
Ask not of dews if they blight	A
Ask not of flames if they slay	K
Ask not of prince or of priest	A
How long ere we put them away	K
	-
Master what of the night	A
Child night is not at all	L
Anywhere fallen or to fall	L
Save in our star stricken eyes	J
Forth of our eyes it takes flight	A
Look we but once nor before	M
Nor behind us but straight on the skies	J
Night is not then any more	M
	-
Exile what of the night	A
The tides and the hours run out	A
The seasons of death and of doubt	A
The night watches bitter and sore	M
In the quicksands leftward and right	A
My feet sink down under me	D
But I know the scents of the shore	M
And the broad blown breaths of the sea	D
	-
Captives what of the night	A
It rains outside overhead	A
Always a rain that is red	A
And our faces are soiled with the rain	B
Here in the seasons' despite	A
Day time and night time are one	N
Till the curse of the kings and the chain	B
Break and their toils be undone	N
	-
Christian what of the night	A
I cannot tell I am blind	A
I halt and hearken behind	A
If haply the hours will go back	O
And return to the dear dead light	A
To the watchfires and stars that of old	A
Shone where the sky now is black	O
Glowed where the earth now is cold	A
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High priest what of the night	A
The night is horrible here	P
With haggard faces and fear	Q
Blood and the burning of fire	R
Mine eyes are emptied of sight	A
Mine hands are full of the dust	A
If the God of my faith be a liar	R
Who is it that I shall trust	A
	-
Princes what of the night	A
Night with pestilent breath	S
Feeds us children of death	S
Clothes us close with her gloom	T
Rapine and famine and fright	A
Crouch at our feet and are fed	A
Earth where we pass is a tomb	T
Life where we triumph is dead	A
	-
Martyrs what of the night	A
Nay is it night with you yet	A
We for our part we forget	A
What night was if it were	R
The loud red mouths of the fight	A
Are silent and shut where we are	U
In our eyes the tempestuous air	V
Shines as the face of a star	U
	-
England what of the night	A
Night is for slumber and sleep	F
Warm no season to weep	F
Let me alone till the day	K
Sleep would I still if I might	A
Who have slept for two hundred years	J
Once I had honour they say	K
But slumber is sweeter than tears	J
	-
France what of the night	A
Night is the prostitute's noon	W
Kissed and drugged till she swoon	W
Spat upon trod upon whored	A
With bloodred rose garlands dight	A
Round me reels in the dance	J
Death my saviour my lord	A
Crowned there is no more France	J
	-
Italy what of the night	A
Ah child child it is long	X
Moonbeam and starbeam and song	X
Leave it dumb now and dark	Y
Yet I perceive on the height	A
Eastward not now very far	U
A song too loud for the lark	Y
A light too strong for a star	U
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Germany what of the night	A
Long has it lulled me with dreams	J
Now at midwatch as it seems	J
Light is brought back to mine eyes	J
And the mastery of old and the might	A
Lives in the joints of mine hands	J
Steadies my limbs as they rise	J
Strengthens my foot as it stands	J
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Europe what of the night	A
Ask of heaven and the sea	D
And my babes on the bosom of me	D
Nations of mine but ungrown	W
There is one who shall surely requite	A
All that endure or that err	V
She can answer alone	W
Ask not of me but of her	R
	-
Liberty what of the night	A
I feel not the red rains fall	L
Hear not the tempest at all	L
Nor thunder in heaven any more	M
All the distance is white	A
With the soundless feet of the sun	W
Night with the woes that it wore	M
Night is over and done	W

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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