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"By all the glories of the day / And the cool evening's benison / By that last sunset touch that lay / Upon the hills when day was done," it begins.

"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".

As my good brother, the Abbot, is not here, thou must content thyself with my benison.

This is the second festival I have kept with those whom society has placed, not outside her pale, indeed, but outside the hearing of her benison.

I remember, however, more than distinctly all that happened the last evening I passed in that secluded house, to my sojourn in which I owe all the benisons bestowed upon my after artist life.