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HYPERION.
BOOK I.
A stream went voiceless by, still deadened more By reason of his fallen divinitySpreading a shade: the Naiad 'mid her reedsPress'd her cold finger closer to her lips.
 Along the margin-sand large foot-marks went,No further than to where his feet had stray'd,And slept there since. Upon the sodden groundHis old right hand lay nerveless, Ustless, dead,Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;While his bow'd head seem'd list'ning to the Earth, 20His ancient mother, for some comfort yet.
 It seem'd no force could wake him from his place;But there came one, who with a kindred handTouch'd his wide shoulders, after bending lowWith reverence, though to one who knew it not.She was a Goddess of the infant world;
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