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Upon a bank easeless with knobs of gold	A
Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke	B
I saw a measureless Beast morose and bold	A
With eyes like one from filthy dreams awoke	B
Who stares upon the daylight in despair	C
For very terror of the nothing there	C
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This beast in one flat hand clutched vulture wise	D
A glittering image of itself in jet	E
And with the other groped about its eyes	D
To drive away the dreams that pestered it	F
And never ceased its coils to toss and beat	G
The mire encumbering its feeble feet	G
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Sharp was its hunger though continually	H
It seemed a cud of stones to ruminate	I
And often like a dog let glittering lie	J
This meatless fare its foolish gaze to sate	I
Once more convulsively to stoop its jaw	K
Or seize the morsel with an envious paw	K
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Indeed it seemed a hidden enemy	H
Must lurk within the clouds above that bank	L
It strained so wildly its pale stubborn eye	J
To pierce its own foul vapours dim and dank	L
Till wearied out it raved in wrath and foam	M
Daring that Nought Invisible to come	N
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Ay and it seemed some strange delight to find	O
In this unmeaning din till suddenly	H
As if it heard a rumour on the wind	O
Or far away its freer children cry	J
Lifting its face made quiet there it stayed	P
Till died the echo its own rage had made	P
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That place alone was barren where it lay	Q
Flowers bloomed beyond utterly sweet and fair	C
And even its own dull heart might think to stay	Q
In livelong thirst of a clear river there	C
Flowing from unseen hills to unheard seas	R
Through a still vale of yew and almond trees	R
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And then I spied in the lush green below	S
Its tortured belly One like silver pale	T
With fingers closed upon a rope of straw	K
That bound the Beast squat neck to hoary tail	T
Lonely in all that verdure faint and deep	U
He watched the monster as a shepherd sheep	U
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I marvelled at the power strength and rage	V
Of this poor creature in such slavery bound	W
Fettered with worms of fear forlorn with age	V
Its blue wing stumps stretched helpless on the ground	W
While twilight faded into darkness deep	U
And he who watched it piped its pangs asleep	U

Walter De La Mare

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