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The Death-Wake

or Lunacy, A Necromaunt. In Three Chimeras. By Thomas Tod Stoddart
Stoddart, Thomas Tod (1810-1880)

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THE DEATH-WAKE, OR LUNACY.
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POEMS.
  
THE IRIS.
  
TO A SPIRIT.
  
HER, A STATUE.
  
TO A STORM-STAID BIRD.
  
THE WOLF-DROVE.
  
HYMN TO ORION.

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The sun is lost within the labyrinth
Of clouds of purple and pale hyacinth,
That are the frontlet of the sister Sky
Kissing her brother Ocean; and they lie
Bathing in blushes, till the rival queen
Night, with her starry tiar, floateth in—
A dark and dazzling beauty! that doth draw
Over the light of love a shade of awe
Most strange, that parts our wonder not the less
Between her mystery and loveliness!
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