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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Frank DempsterSherman

1376 At Midnight

SEE, yonder, the belfry tower

That gleams in the moon’s pale light;

Or is it a ghostly flower

That dreams in the silent night?

I listen and hear the chime

Go quavering o’er the town,

And out of this flower of Time

Twelve petals are wafted down.