When off she lept upon his wings to fly.
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But as a dead stone, from a height let fall,
Silent and straight is gather’d by the force
Of earth’s vast mass upon its weight so small,
In speed increasing as it nears its source
Of motion—by which law all things so’er
Are clutch’d and dragg’d and held—so fell she there,
Like a dead stone, down in her headlong course.
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