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Updated: May 20, 2025

It was a damp December morning; and clouds were passing over the sky, thin, vapory clouds, whose snow-white skirts were "often spotted with golden tears, which men call stars." The day dawned slowly; and, in the mingling of daylightand starlight, the island and cloister of Nonnenwerth made together but one broad, dark shadow on the silver breast of the river.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hyperion