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[“When Desolation snatched her tearful prey]
“When Desolation snatched her tearful preyFrom the lorn empire of despairing day;
When all the light, by gemless fancy thrown,
Served but to animate the putrid stone;
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Crumblingly vanished into utter night;
When murder stalked with thirstier strides abroad,
And redly flashed the never-sated sword;
In such an hour thy greatness had been seen—
That is, if such an hour had ever been—
In such an hour thy praises shall be sung,
If not by mine, by many a worthier tongue;
And thou be gazed upon by wondering men,
When such an hour arrives, but not till then!”
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