A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN.
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xi.
Those far-renownèd brides of ancient song
Peopled the hollow dark, like burning stars,
And I heard sounds of insult, shame, and wrong,
And trumpets blown for wars;
Those far-renownèd brides of ancient song
Peopled the hollow dark, like burning stars,
And I heard sounds of insult, shame, and wrong,
And trumpets blown for wars;
xii.
And clattering flints battered with clanging hoofs:
And I saw crowds in columned sanctuaries;
And forms that screamed at windows and on roofs
Of marble palaces;
And clattering flints battered with clanging hoofs:
And I saw crowds in columned sanctuaries;
And forms that screamed at windows and on roofs
Of marble palaces;
xiii.
Corpses across the threshold; heroes tall
Dislodging pinnacle and parapet
Upon the tortoise creeping to the wall;
Lances in ambush set;
Corpses across the threshold; heroes tall
Dislodging pinnacle and parapet
Upon the tortoise creeping to the wall;
Lances in ambush set;
xiv.
And high shrinedoors burst thro' with heated blasts
That run before the fluttering tongues of fire,
White surf windscattered over sails and masts,
And ever climbing higher,
And high shrinedoors burst thro' with heated blasts
That run before the fluttering tongues of fire,
White surf windscattered over sails and masts,
And ever climbing higher,
