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    An August Midnight: by Thomas Hardy

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    A poet finds himself with five nocturnal insects - a longlegs, moth, dumbledore, and sleepy fly - as guests in his dimly lit room late one night. He observes them interacting with the lamp glass and his fresh ink and muses that though they are among God's humblest creatures, they possess knowledge of Earth's secrets unknown to him. The poem explores the coming together of the poet and insects in the still of the night in a confined space and time.

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    A poet finds himself with five nocturnal insects - a longlegs, moth, dumbledore, and sleepy fly - as guests in his dimly lit room late one night. He observes them interacting with the lamp glass and his fresh ink and muses that though they are among God's humblest creatures, they possess knowledge of Earth's secrets unknown to him. The poem explores the coming together of the poet and insects in the still of the night in a confined space and time.

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    A poet finds himself with five nocturnal insects - a longlegs, moth, dumbledore, and sleepy fly - as guests in his dimly lit room late one night. He observes them interacting with the lamp glass and his fresh ink and muses that though they are among God's humblest creatures, they possess knowledge of Earth's secrets unknown to him. The poem explores the coming together of the poet and insects in the still of the night in a confined space and time.

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    A poet finds himself with five nocturnal insects - a longlegs, moth, dumbledore, and sleepy fly - as guests in his dimly lit room late one night. He observes them interacting with the lamp glass and his fresh ink and muses that though they are among God's humblest creatures, they possess knowledge of Earth's secrets unknown to him. The poem explores the coming together of the poet and insects in the still of the night in a confined space and time.

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    An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy

    A shaded lamp and a waving blind,


    And the beat of a clock from a distant floor:
    On this scene enter--winged, horned, and spined -
    A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore;
    While 'mid my page there idly stands
    A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands . . .

    II

    Thus meet we five, in this still place,


    At this point of time, at this point in space.
    - My guests parade my new-penned ink,
    Or bang at the lamp-glass, whirl, and sink.
    "God's humblest, they!" I muse. Yet why?
    They know Earth-secrets that know not I.

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