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And ever as the summer comes the mystic queen,
Forbidden ever to return as comet to the sky,
Steals silently from out the west, at rising of the sun,
To look upon her lover’s mantled form
And meditate, alone, that sweet, sad morn
When first they met; and still the hag, hell born,
Pursues and draws obscuring veil o’er each; to realms unknown
They thus return. The tale is true, for even mortal eye,
When blessed of sight, may yet behold that very scene."