Sitteth, devour’d by her own vital ill,

Motionless, nerveless, where for her no sound

Of life is, only the wind’s alien

Moan that meandereth sleeplessly around

The promontory,—what saviour can then

Help helpless sorrow? What shall break that spell

Of icy death in life, that shackling Hell?

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O gentle weariness,

Thine is the power that can all spirits free