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Thou Leanest To The Shell Of Night

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Thou leanest to the shell of night,     Dear lady, a divining ear.     In that soft choiring of delight     What sound hath made thy heart to fear?     Seemed it of rivers rushing forth     From the grey deserts of the north?     That mood of thine     Is his, if thou but scan it well,     Who a mad tale bequeaths to us     At ghosting hour conjurable,     And all for some strange name he read     In Purchas or in Holinshed.

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