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IGNIS FATUUS. |
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IGNIS FATUUS.
MY soul is like some pale phantasmal light,That flickers o'er a marsh of mystery
And with its baleful phosphorescency
Stretches long hands of blue into the night.
It may not give the fair world to men's sight
Nor rescue back the lovely things that be
Out of the shrouding gloom; but, from the sea
Of dreams, the shadowy armies infinite
Of the Invisibles flock forth to it
And many a wraith of worlds fantastical
Breaks into lurid lapses, stretching through
The interambient glooms, with many a hall
And cloister, grey with flitting ghosts and lit
With many a witch's torch of livid blue.
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