a
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after
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all
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From this reading "It may," he says, "be all that is melancholy if the night is bad and the winter wind moans through the pines"; but it also "brings moments of exaltation, if the cloud-banks roll back, if the moonlight breaks over the windless hills, or the heavens blaze with the beauty of the northern stars."
also
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ample
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And
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ardent
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as
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back
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bad
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From this reading "It may," he says, "be all that is melancholy if the night is bad and the winter wind moans through the pines"; but it also "brings moments of exaltation, if the cloud-banks roll back, if the moonlight breaks over the windless hills, or the heavens blaze with the beauty of the northern stars."
be
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beauty
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blaze
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bomb-proof
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breaks
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brings
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bursting
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but
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chill
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cloud-banks
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comes
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concert
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day
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dug-out
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eager
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every
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evidently
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exaltation
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for
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fragments
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grand
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has
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have
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he
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heavens
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hills
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him
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human
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if
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immediately
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in
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is
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it
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its
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madness
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may
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meant
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melancholy
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moans
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moments
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moonlight
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music
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must
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night
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northern
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now
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of
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on
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or
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orchestral
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out
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over
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overhead
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pines
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pleasure-loving
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rattle
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reflection
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relief
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roll
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roof
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says
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sentinel
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sentry-duty
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shell
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sit
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sodden
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solitude
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something
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spirit
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stars
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From this reading "It may," he says, "be all that is melancholy if the night is bad and the winter wind moans through the pines"; but it also "brings moments of exaltation, if the cloud-banks roll back, if the moonlight breaks over the windless hills, or the heavens blaze with the beauty of the northern stars."
that
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the
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then
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Think
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this
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through
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time
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to
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trench
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verminous
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what
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wind
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From this reading "It may," he says, "be all that is melancholy if the night is bad and the winter wind moans through the pines"; but it also "brings moments of exaltation, if the cloud-banks roll back, if the moonlight breaks over the windless hills, or the heavens blaze with the beauty of the northern stars."
windless
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winter
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with
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From this reading "It may," he says, "be all that is melancholy if the night is bad and the winter wind moans through the pines"; but it also "brings moments of exaltation, if the cloud-banks roll back, if the moonlight breaks over the windless hills, or the heavens blaze with the beauty of the northern stars."