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<h2><i>THE VALLEY OF UNREST</i></h2>
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<i>Once</i> it smiled a silent dell<br/>
Where the people did not dwell;<br/>
They had gone unto the wars,<br/>
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,<br/>
Nightly, from their azure towers,<br/>
To keep watch above the flowers,<br/>
In the midst of which all day<br/>
The red sunlight lazily lay.<br/>
<i>Now</i> each visitor shall confess<br/>
The sad valley's restlessness.<br/>
Nothing there is motionless—<br/>
Nothing save the airs that brood<br/>
Over the magic solitude.<br/>
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees<br/>
That palpitate like the chill seas<br/>
Around the misty Hebrides!<br/>
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven<br/>
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven<br/>
Uneasily, from morn till even,<br/>
Over the violets there that lie<br/>
In myriad types of the human eye—<br/>
Over the lilies there that wave<br/>
And weep above a nameless grave!<br/>
They wave:—from out their fragrant tops<br/>
Eternal dews come down in drops.<br/>
They weep:—from off their delicate stems<br/>
Perennial tears descend in gems.<br/></p>
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<p class="caption">The Valley of Unrest</p>
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