Had weighed all these and found them nothing worth.

Indifferently the dawn that never fails

Troubled the east of night with gradual birth,

Whispering a change of colours on cold earth,

And a bird woke, then two. The sunlight ran

Along the hills and yellow day began.

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But stagnant gloom clung in the valley yet;

Hills crowded out a third part of the sky,

Black-looking, and the boulders dripped with wet: