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The Sea-King

A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg
  

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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.