At every wave, and through her gaping side

And o’er her shattered bulwark ever drinks,

Till plunging in the watery wild she sinks,

To scoop her grave beneath the crushing tide:

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So with each word her broken spirit drank

Its doom; and overwhelm’d with deep despair

She turn’d away, and coming forth she sank

Silently weeping on the temple stair,

In midmost night, forspent with long turmoil: