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The Sea-King

A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg
Bigg, J. Stanyan (1828-1865)
  
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XVI.

For hours, the two pursued their downward way,
Threading the windings of this vault of night;
When on the startled sense there sprang a light
Issuing from the dreary vaults below,
Like scathing lightning, blue and bright
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Upstarting from the world of woe.
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