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A pale Dream came to a Lady fair	B
And said A boon a boon I pray	C
I know the secrets of the air	B
And things are lost in the glare of day	C
Which I can make the sleeping see	D
If they will put their trust in me	D
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And thou shalt know of things unknown	E
If thou wilt let me rest between	F
The veiny lids whose fringe is thrown	E
Over thine eyes so dark and sheen	F
And half in hope and half in fright	G
The Lady closed her eyes so bright	G
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At first all deadly shapes were driven	H
Tumultuously across her sleep	I
And o er the vast cope of bending heaven	H
All ghastly visaged clouds did sweep	I
And the Lady ever looked to spy	J
If the golden sun shone forth on high	J
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And as towards the east she turned	K
She saw aloft in the morning air	B
Which now with hues of sunrise burned	K
A great black Anchor rising there	B
And wherever the Lady turned her eyes	L
It hung before her in the skies	L
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The sky was blue as the summer sea	D
The depths were cloudless overhead	M
The air was calm as it could be	D
There was no sight or sound of dread	M
But that black Anchor floating still	N
Over the piny eastern hill	N
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The Lady grew sick with a weight of fear	O
To see that Anchor ever hanging	P
And veiled her eyes she then did hear	Q
The sound as of a dim low clanging	P
And looked abroad if she might know	R
Was it aught else or but the flow	R
Of the blood in her own veins to and fro	R
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There was a mist in the sunless air	B
Which shook as it were with an earthquake s shock	S
But the very weeds that blossomed there	B
Were moveless and each mighty rock	S
Stood on its basis steadfastly	D
The Anchor was seen no more on high	J
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But piled around with summits hid	T
In lines of cloud at intervals	U
Stood many a mountain pyramid	T
Among whose everlasting walls	V
Two mighty cities shone and ever	W
Through the red mist their domes did quiver	W
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On two dread mountains from whose crest	X
Might seem the eagle for her brood	Y
Would ne er have hung her dizzy nest	X
Those tower encircled cities stood	Z
A vision strange such towers to see	D
Sculptured and wrought so gorgeously	D
Where human art could never be	D
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And columns framed of marble white	G
And giant fanes dome over dome	A2
Piled and triumphant gates all bright	G
With workmanship which could not come	B2
From touch of mortal instrument	C2
Shot o er the vales or lustre lent	D2
From its own shapes magnificent	C2
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But still the Lady heard that clang	E2
Filling the wide air far away	C
And still the mist whose light did hang	E2
Among the mountains shook alway	C
So that the Lady s heart beat fast	F2
As half in joy and half aghast	F2
On those high domes her look she cast	F2
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Sudden from out that city sprung	G2
A light that made the earth grow red	M
Two flames that each with quivering tongue	G2
Licked its high domes and overhead	M
Among those mighty towers and fanes	D
Dropped fire as a volcano rains	D
Its sulphurous ruin on the plains	D
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And hark a rush as if the deep	I
Had burst its bonds she looked behind	H2
And saw over the western steep	I
A raging flood descend and wind	H2
Through that wide vale she felt no fear	O
But said within herself Tis clear	O
These towers are Nature s own and she	D
To save them has sent forth the sea	D
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And now those raging billows came	I2
Where that fair Lady sate and she	D
Was borne towards the showering flame	I2
By the wild waves heaped tumultuously	D
And on a little plank the flow	D
Of the whirlpool bore her to and fro	D
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The flames were fiercely vomited	H2
From every tower and every dome	A2
And dreary light did widely shed	H2
O er that vast flood s suspended foam	A2
Beneath the smoke which hung its night	H2
On the stained cope of heaven s light	H2
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The plank whereon that Lady sate	H2
Was driven through the chasms about and about	H2
Between the peaks so desolate	H2
Of the drowning mountains in and out	H2
As the thistle beard on a whirlwind sails	D
While the flood was filling those hollow vales	D
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At last her plank an eddy crossed	H2
And bore her to the city s wall	D
Which now the flood had reached almost	H2
It might the stoutest heart appal	D
To hear the fire roar and hiss	D
Through the domes of those mighty palaces	D
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The eddy whirled her round and round	H2
Before a gorgeous gate which stood	H2
Piercing the clouds of smoke which bound	H2
Its aery arch with light like blood	H2
She looked on that gate of marble clear	O
With wonder that extinguished fear	O
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For it was filled with sculptures rarest	H2
Of forms most beautiful and strange	J2
Like nothing human but the fairest	H2
Of winged shapes whose legions range	J2
Throughout the sleep of those that are	K2
Like this same Lady good and fair	B
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And as she looked still lovelier grew	L2
Those marble forms the sculptor sure	M2
Was a strong spirit and the hue	L2
Of his own mind did there endure	M2
After the touch whose power had braided	H2
Such grace was in some sad change faded	H2
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She looked the flames were dim the flood	H2
Grew tranquil as a woodland river	W
Winding through hills in solitude	H2
Those marble shapes then seemed to quiver	W
And their fair limbs to float in motion	H
Like weeds unfolding in the ocean	H
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And their lips moved one seemed to speak	N2
When suddenly the mountains cracked	H2
And through the chasm the flood did break	O2
With an earth uplifting cataract	H2
The statues gave a joyous scream	P2
And on its wings the pale thin Dream	P2
Lifted the Lady from the stream	P2
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The dizzy flight of that phantom pale	D
Waked the fair Lady from her sleep	I
And she arose while from the veil	D
Of her dark eyes the Dream did creep	I
And she walked about as one who knew	L2
That sleep has sights as clear and true	L2
As any waking eyes can view	L2

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