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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
   Albeit the sun shone bright;
Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning,
   “Remember Night!”

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From Poems of Cheer | Gay and Hancock, 1914

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