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MERLIN AND THE GLEAM
iii.Once at the croak of a Raven who crost it,A barbarous people,Blind to the magic,And deaf to the melody,Snarl’d at and cursed me.A demon vext me,The light retreated,The landskip darken’d,The melody deaden’d,The Master whisper’d‘Follow The Gleam.’