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Behold! the rain is over: on the wave A new, a flashing light! Lo, she arises calm, The pale, the patient moon, and pours like balm Through the wet wood’s wrecked aisle Her own unutterably tender smile!

There is no calm like that when storm is done; There is no pleasure keen as pain’s release; There is no joy that lies so deep as peace, No peace so deep as that by struggle won.

Naught now remains, naught now remains but night-- Night peaceful, with the moon on field and wave!