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Fragment: 'I Stood Upon A Heaven-Cleaving Turret'.

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I stood upon a heaven-cleaving turret     Which overlooked a wide Metropolis -     And in the temple of my heart my Spirit     Lay prostrate, and with parted lips did kiss     The dust of Desolations [altar] hearth -     And with a voice too faint to falter     It shook that trembling fane with its weak prayer     'Twas noon, - the sleeping skies were blue     The city

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