When will he wake from sleep?

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,

With your harmonious choir

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Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,

That my old care may cease;

Unfold your flaming wings and cover out of sight

The nets of day and night.

Dim Powers of drowsy thought, let her no longer be

Like the pale cup of the sea,

When winds have gathered and sun and moon burned dim

Above its cloudy rim;

But let a gentle silence wrought with music flow

Whither her footsteps go.

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AEDH WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD

Were you but lying cold and dead,

And lights were paling out of the West,

You would come hither, and bend your head,

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