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POEMS AND LYRICS.
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And the spirit enshrouded, she cast
The wan underworld on the lake.
They were so, and they passed.

IV.

He tells it, who knew the law
Upon mortals: he stood alive
Declaring that this he saw:
He could see, and survive.

V.

Now the youth was not ware of the beams
With the grasses intertwined,
For each thing seen, as in dreams,
Came stepping to rear through his mind,
Till it struck his remembered prayer