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Which would ensnare us now, for, in the end,

It was a feeble shriek, faint, far, and low

Arrested me-my mien grew calm In victory or in death our hopes and

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With seeming-careless glance; not many were

Around her, for their comrades just withdrew

To guard some other victim-so I drew

My knife, and with one impulse, suddenly,

All unaware three of their number slew,

And grasped a fourth by the throat, and with loud cry

So that I feared some brainless My countrymen invoked to death or

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Whose capital seemed sculptured in the sky,

Which to the wanderers o'er the soli

tude

The grate, as they departed to

repass,

With horrid clangour fell, and the far sound

Of distant seas, from ages long Of their retiring steps in the dense gone by,

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gloom were drowned.

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The noon was calm and bright :around that column

The overhanging sky and circling

sea

Spread forth, in silentness profound and solemn,

The darkness of brief frenzy cast on me,

So that I knew not my own misery : The islands and the mountains in the day

Like clouds reposed afar; and I could see

The town among the woods below that lay,

And the dark rocks which bound the bright and glassy bay.

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It was so calm that scarce the feathery weed

Sown by some eagle on the top

most stone

Swayed in the air :-so bright that noon did breed

No shadow in the sky beside mine

own

Mine, and the shadow of my chain alone.

Below, the smoke of roofs involved in flame

Rested like night, all else was clearly shown

In that broad glare,-yet sound to me

none came,

As to its ponderous and suspended | But of the living blood that ran within

mass,

With chains which eat into the

flesh, alas!

With brazen links, my naked limbs they bound:

my frame.

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The peace of madness fled, and ah

too soon!

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Arose, and bore me in its dark

career

Beyond the sun, beyond the stars that

wane

On the verge of formless space-it languished there,

My wretched frame, my scorched limbs he wound

In linen moist and balmy, and as cold

As dew to drooping leaves: the chain, with sound

And, dying, left a silence lone and Like earthquake, through the chasm of

drear,

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