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  • But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist and hum of that low land, Into the frosty starlight.

    - Matthew Arnold
      Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.875^7.

  • Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

    - Stephen Collins Foster
      'Beautiful Dreamer'.

  • In the moonlight and the starlight, Fair Nokomis bore a daughter. And she called her name Wenonah, As the first-born of her daughters.

    - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
       The naming of Hiawatha's mother. The Song of Hiawatha, pt.3,'Hiawatha's Childhood'. The name is now usually spelt Winona.

  • While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talks with the departed dead.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.

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