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Ibant Obscuae

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To-night I saw three maidens on the beach,     Dark-robed descending to the sea,     So slow, so silent of all speech,     And visible to me     Only by that strange drift-light, dim, forlorn,     Of the sun's wreck and clashing surges born.     Each after other went,     And they were gathered to his breast,     It seemed to me a sacrament     Of some stern creed unblest:     As when to rocks, that cheerless girt the bay,     They bound thy holy limbs, Andromeda.

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