“I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!”

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hymn to the Night, st. 1 (1839).

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American poet 1807–1882

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