Lay with her in a strange and secret spot,

Mortal with her immortal, and begot

This walker-in-the-night.”—“But did you know

This mortal’s name?”—“Why ... it was long ago.

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“And yet, I think, I bear the name in mind;

It was some famished boy whom tampering men

Had crippled in their chains and made him blind

Till their weak hour discovered them: and then

He broke that prison. Softly!—it comes again,