The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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XXXVI.
It was a gloomy vault, no human eyeMight scan its vast dimensions; and on high
And on the right, and left, and here, and there,
Was universal darkness; save the glare,
The faint and feeble glare that issued from the lamp.
The cave that hitherto was cold and damp,
Became illumined with a sudden fire,
And then a hot and parching air
Drank up the moisture; a sulphureous flare
Seemed towards the cavern's summit to aspire,
And gave a ghastly light, and scorched the Sea-King's hair.
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