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EXPECTATION.

(From the German of Chamisso.)

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

FULL oft, before the morning

Has the eastern sky made gray,

At the window I've waited, trembling,

And gaz'd far, far away.

And in the hours of noonday

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Have I wept, ah, bitterly!

But I meant at heart to murmur,

"Yet will he come to me."

The night, the night is coming,

That I long have sought to shun;

I have lost what I lov'd the dearest -

The day, alas, is done!

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