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Then stalking to thy sullen grave—
Go—and with Gouls and Afrits rave;
Till these in horror shrink away
From spectre more accursed than they!
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Go—and with Gouls and Afrits rave;
Till these in horror shrink away
From spectre more accursed than they!
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"How name ye yon lone Caloyer?
"His features I have scann'd before
"In mine own land—'tis many a year,
"Since, dashing by the lonely shore,
"I saw him urge as fleet a steed
"As ever serv'd a horseman's need.
"But once I saw that face—but then
"It was so mark'd with inward pain
"I could not pass it by again;
"It breathes the same dark spirit now,
"As death were stamped upon his brow.
"His features I have scann'd before
"In mine own land—'tis many a year,
"Since, dashing by the lonely shore,
"I saw him urge as fleet a steed
"As ever serv'd a horseman's need.
"But once I saw that face—but then
"It was so mark'd with inward pain
"I could not pass it by again;
"It breathes the same dark spirit now,
"As death were stamped upon his brow.
"'Tis twice three years at summer tide
"Since first among our freres he came;
"And here it soothes him to abide
"For some dark deed he will not name.
"Since first among our freres he came;
"And here it soothes him to abide
"For some dark deed he will not name.
