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So here, beneath the waking constellations,

Where the waves peal their everlasting strains,

And their dull subterrene reverberations

Shake him when storms make mountains of their plains—

Him once their peer in sad improvisations,

And deft as wind to cleave their frothy manes—

I leave him, while the daylight gleam declines

Upon the capes and chines.

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