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III.
Orm's Awakening.
I awoke. And rising,
My Soul look'd forth—
'Twas the dewy darkness,
And the Veil was glittering
Over the earth;
But afar off eastward
The Dawn was glimmering,
All silver pale,
And slowly fading
With a mystic tremor,
The Lights gleam'd beautiful
In the wondrous Veil
Yea, Dawn came cheerily,
And the hill-tops brighten'd,
And the shepherds shouted,
And a trumped blew,
And the misty Ocean
Caught silver tremors,
With the brown-sail'd fish-boats
Glimmering through—
And the City murmur'd
As I ran unto it,
And my heart was merry,
And my fears were few;
And singing gaily
The lark rose upward,
Its brown wings gleaming
With the morning dew!
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