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IX.
Ariel first,(Not sight-deceiving, as her custom was,
When in the bowels of the earth she div'd;
“Or mounted on the sharp wind of the North,
“Or on the curling clouds, or sunny ray,
“Nor like a spirit at ease”) but with step
Deliberate—She, and her fellow-ministers,
(“Brimful of sorrow and dismay”) stood mute,
Then gaz'd upon the grave—then sunk in sighs.
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