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Caverns

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Written Of Colossal Cave, Kentucky     Aisles and abysses; leagues no man explores,     Of rock that labyrinths and night that drips;     Where everlasting silence broods, with lips     Of adamant, o'er earthquake-builded floors.     Where forms, such as the Demon-World adores,     Laborious water carves; whence echo slips     Wild-tongued o'er pools where petrifaction strips     Her breasts of crystal from which crystal pours.     Here where primordial fear, the Gorgon, sits     Staring all life to stone in ghastly mirth,     I seem to tread, with awe no tongue can tell,     Beneath vast domes, by torrent-tortured pits,     'Mid wrecks terrific of the ruined Earth,     An ancient causeway of forgotten Hell.

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