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I.

But now Otlauga sat in her hall,
And many a guest sat silent there;—
The lamps were lit, the fires were bright,—
Outside the clouds formed a funeral pall
For the moon as it slept in the frozen air,
And the stars that hung in the chambers of night
Were wan as ghosts in the pale moonlight;
Mountains of ice, and frozen snow
Were here,—were there,—above and below.