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69
LXI.
[In sleep I saw the skies at midnight red]
In sleep I saw the skies at midnight redFrom the zenith to the ocean's fevered lips,
And all the dark tide blush with blazing ships
And burning towns. Fierce flames, suddenly shed,
Each like a snake lifting its crested head,
Sprang from the isles far-scattered: dull eclipse
Shadowed the stars: the blurred moon's hornèd tips,
Weltering through wreathéd fog-smoke, oozed and bled.
Heaven, sea, and earth in wild confusion burned,
And by that light I saw pale mothers fling
Their babes on the sharp rocks from cliffs above.
Then to a cloaked shape at my side I turned,
And questioned it, “What fiend hath done this thing?”
And it replied “These are the deeds of Love.”
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