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IV. THE HUNTCLIFF.
What weird Protean changefulness impressedYon cliff, when layer on layer up it rose
Above the Saurian, in his fossil woes,
That thus all day, as if it could not rest
Content in one same royal purple dressed,
It needs must don such amethystine shows,
And, like a breathing thing that feels, disclose
Chameleon changes upward to its crest?
Was it infected by the sapphire tide
That crawls in colour, restless, manifold,
Above the yellow seaweed at its feet;
Or, does the world of shadows here compete
With lustrous sunshine, so that they, who hold
Light only loved, feel darkness glorified?
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