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When sorrow hath outsoar’d our nature’s clime,Leaving it far remote &, like a strongEagle lone brooding on her peak sublime,Graspeth in solitude her towering wrong;& no more hankereth for petty preyNor bleeding victim wherewithal to stillHer hunger of desolate passion, but thus ayeSitteth, devour’d by her own vital ill,Motionless, nerveless, where for her no soundOf life is, only the wind’s alienMoan that meandereth sleeplessly aroundThe promontory,—what saviour can thenHelp helpless sorrow? What shall break that spellOf icy death in life, that shackling Hell?

When sorrow hath outsoar’d our nature’s clime,Leaving it far remote &, like a strongEagle lone brooding on her peak sublime,Graspeth in solitude her towering wrong;& no more hankereth for petty preyNor bleeding victim wherewithal to stillHer hunger of desolate passion, but thus ayeSitteth, devour’d by her own vital ill,Motionless, nerveless, where for her no soundOf life is, only the wind’s alienMoan that meandereth sleeplessly aroundThe promontory,—what saviour can thenHelp helpless sorrow? What shall break that spellOf icy death in life, that shackling Hell?

When sorrow hath outsoar’d our nature’s clime,Leaving it far remote &, like a strongEagle lone brooding on her peak sublime,Graspeth in solitude her towering wrong;

When sorrow hath outsoar’d our nature’s clime,

Leaving it far remote &, like a strong

Eagle lone brooding on her peak sublime,

Graspeth in solitude her towering wrong;

& no more hankereth for petty preyNor bleeding victim wherewithal to stillHer hunger of desolate passion, but thus ayeSitteth, devour’d by her own vital ill,

& no more hankereth for petty prey

Nor bleeding victim wherewithal to still

Her hunger of desolate passion, but thus aye

Sitteth, devour’d by her own vital ill,

Motionless, nerveless, where for her no soundOf life is, only the wind’s alienMoan that meandereth sleeplessly aroundThe promontory,—what saviour can then

Motionless, nerveless, where for her no sound

Of life is, only the wind’s alien

Moan that meandereth sleeplessly around

The promontory,—what saviour can then

Help helpless sorrow? What shall break that spellOf icy death in life, that shackling Hell?

Help helpless sorrow? What shall break that spell

Of icy death in life, that shackling Hell?


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