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O the waiting in the watches of the night	A
In the darkness desolation and contrition and affright	A
The awful hush that holds us shut away from all delight	A
The ever weary memory that ever weary goes	B
Recounting ever over every aching loss it knows	B
The ever weary eyelids gasping ever for repose	B
In the dreary weary watches of the night	A
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Dark stifling dark the watches of the night	A
With tingling nerves at tension how the blackness flashes white	A
With spectral visitations smitten past the inner sight	A
What shuddering sense of wrongs we've wrought	A
that may not be redressed	A
Of tears we did not brush away of lips we left unpressed	A
And hands that we let fall with all their loyalty unguessed	A
Ah the empty empty watches of the night	A
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What solace in the watches of the night	A
What frailest staff of hope to stay what faintest shaft of light	A
Do we dream and dare believe it that by never weight of right	A
Of our own poor weak deservings we shall win the dawn at last	A
Our famished souls find freedom from this penance for the past	A
In a faith that leaps and lightens from the gloom	C
that flees aghast	A
Shall we survive the watches of the night	A
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One leads us through the watches of the night	A
By the ceaseless intercession of our loved ones lost to sight	A
He is with us through all trials in His mercy and His might	A
With our mothers there about Him all our sorrow disappears	D
Till the silence of our sobbing is the prayer the Master hears	E
And His hand is laid upon us with the tenderness of tears	F
In the waning of the watches of the night	A

James Whitcomb Riley

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