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Difference(s) between text #117026 and text #117024

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11In the calm darkness of the Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: — the power is there,
22moonless nights, The still and solemn power of many sights,
33the snows descend. And many sounds, and much of life and death.
44 In the calm darkness of the moonless nights,
55Sonno e morte, schlaf und tod. In the lone glare of day, the snows descend
66(Sleep and death)Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there,
7Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun,
8Or the star-beams dart through them. Winds contend
9Silently there, and heap the snow with breath
10Rapid and strong, but silently! Its home
11The voiceless lightning in these solitudes
12Keeps innocently, and like vapour broods
13Over the snow. The secret Strength of things
14Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
15Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thee!
16And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
17If to the human mind's imaginings
18Silence and solitude were vacancy?

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