Tasso and the Sisters Tasso's Spirit: The Nuptials of Juno: The Skeletons: The Spirits of the Ocean. Poems, By Thomas Wade |
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Around me Skeletons stood lank and foul:
Their looks were horrible; for one and all
Seem'd gifted with existence—a pale light
Shone in their eyeless sockets, and their jaws
Mov'd as in mockery of living lips.
I past before them, when they grinn'd amain,
And hollow laughter shook the dreary vault!
'Twas terrible to see—and seeing, think
In space how brief should I as they become,
And be a partner in their devilish joy.—
I thought it devilish—not so their speech,
Which spoke in sorrowful and human tones,
And this the tenor of their eloquence.
Their looks were horrible; for one and all
Seem'd gifted with existence—a pale light
Shone in their eyeless sockets, and their jaws
Mov'd as in mockery of living lips.
I past before them, when they grinn'd amain,
And hollow laughter shook the dreary vault!
'Twas terrible to see—and seeing, think
In space how brief should I as they become,
And be a partner in their devilish joy.—
I thought it devilish—not so their speech,
Which spoke in sorrowful and human tones,
And this the tenor of their eloquence.
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