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Complin   Listen
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Complin, Compline  n.  (Eccl.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset. "The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night."





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... were, So gray, so haggard, and austere, Not plants at all they seemed to me, But rather some spare company Of hermit folk, who long ago, Wandering in bodies to and fro, Had chanced upon this lonely way, And rested thus, till death one day Surprised them at their compline prayer, And ...
— Lyrics of Earth • Archibald Lampman


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