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TESTO DEL LIED
"Twilight" di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
The soft voluptuous opiate shades, The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd -- (I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,) A haze -- nirwana -- rest and night -- oblivion.