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III.

Then soon a plan for their escape
Was moulded into practicable shape:
Only the pressing, first, immediate need
Was that before these natives they should be
Absolute strangers, nor each other heed.
This need did Amo when she first caught sight
Of Ranolf, feel—this, somehow could foresee;

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And this perception made her first wild cry,
That sudden cry of wonder and delight
Die off in such a strange unmeaning moan.