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Then let me, strengthened and refreshed,
Strive with them in the day,
This glorious world which thou hast made
Spread out in bloom before me,
Thy blessed sunshine on my path,
Thy radiant skies hung o'er me.
But when, like ghosts of the sun's lost rays,
Come down the moonbeams pale,
And the dark earth lies like an Eastern bride
Beneath her silvery veil,
Then let the night, with its silence deep,
Its dews and its starry gleams,
Be peace, and rest, and love!—God,
Smile on me in my dreams!
Strive with them in the day,
This glorious world which thou hast made
Spread out in bloom before me,
Thy blessed sunshine on my path,
Thy radiant skies hung o'er me.
But when, like ghosts of the sun's lost rays,
Come down the moonbeams pale,
And the dark earth lies like an Eastern bride
Beneath her silvery veil,
Then let the night, with its silence deep,
Its dews and its starry gleams,
Be peace, and rest, and love!—God,
Smile on me in my dreams!
