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BY E. ANNA LEWIS.

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THE PROMONTORY OF LEUCADIA.

This is the spot—’tis here tradition says,

That hopeless love from this high towering rook

Leaped headlong to oblivion, or to death.

Oh, ’tis a giddy height! my dizzy head

Swims at the precipice!—’tis death to fall.

Southey.