A Starry Night

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A cloud fell down from the heavens,
  And broke on the mountain's brow;
  It scattered the dusky fragments
  All over the vale below.

  The moon and the stars were anxious
  To know what its fate might be;
  So they rushed to the azure op'ning,
  And all peered down to see.

© Paul Laurence Dunbar