| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36693 |
| QUOTATION: | I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882), U.S. poet. Hymn to the Night (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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