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Venus nearly down in the west, of a size and lustre as if trying to outshow herself, before departing.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

"Then, high handiwork will I make my life-deed, Truth and Light outshow; but the ripe time pending, Intermissive aim at the thing sufficeth."

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas