Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.
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While twilight's curtain gathering far Is pinned with a single diamond star.
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Now twilight lets her curtain down, And pins it with a star.
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Compare: "And drew my midnight curtain with fingers bloody red", Thomas Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram; "The moon is a silver pinhead vast, That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast", William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.McDonald Clarke
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