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Then I knelt down most silent like the night, Too self-renounced for fears, Raising my small face to the boundless blue Whose stars did mix and tremble in my tears.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

Then I knelt down, as silent as the night, Too self-renounced for fears; Raising my small face to the boundless blue, Whose stars did mix and tremble in my tears!

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel