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ANDROMEDA.
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Tenderly casting them back, as they gasped on the beach in the sunshine,Home to their mother—in vain! for mine sits childless in anguish! 120O dread sea! false sea! I dreamed what I dreamed of thy goodness;Dreamed of a smile in thy gleam, of a laugh in the plash of thy ripple:False and devouring thou art, and the great world dark and despiteful.' Awed by her own rash words she was still: and her eyes to the seawardLooked for an answer of wrath: far off, in the heart of the darkness,Blight white mists rose slowly; beneath them the wandering oceanGlimmered and glowed to the deepest abyss; and the knees of the maidenTrembled and sank in her fear, as afar, like a dawn in the midnight,
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