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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.