The Night Mail and Other Poems

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With walls and towers were girdled round,

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Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

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And here were forests ancient as the hills,

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Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

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Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

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A savage place! as holy and enchanted

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As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

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By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

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And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

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As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

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A mighty fountain momently was forced:

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Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

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Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,