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I saw, before, and underneath my feet,

A lake, whose frozen surface liker seemed

To glass than water. Not so thick a veil

In winter e’er hath Austrian Danube spread

O’er his still course, nor Tanais, far remote

Under the chilling sky. Rolled o’er that mass

Had Tabernich or Pietrapana fallen

Not even its rim had creaked.

As peeps the frog,