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Copan

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Around its walls the forests of the west          Gloom, as about some mystery's final pale          Might lie its multifold exterior veil.         Sculptured with signs and meanings unconfessed,         Its lordly fanes and palaces attest          A past before whose wall of darkness fail          Reason and fancy, finding not the tale         Erased by time from history's palimpsest.         Within this place, that from the gloom of Eld          Still meets the light, a people came and went             Like whirls of dust between its columns blown -         An alien race, whose record, shadow-held,          Is sealed with those of others long forespent             That died in sunless planets lost and lone.

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