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HYPERION.
BOOK I.
And from the mirror'd level where he stoodA mist arose, as from a scummy marsh.At this, through all his bulk an agonyCrept gradual, from the feet unto the crown, 260Like a lithe serpent vast and muscularMaking slow way, with head and neck convuls'dFrom over-strained might. Releas'd, he fledTo the eastern gates, and full six dewy hoursBefore the dawn in season due should blush,He breath'd fierce breath against the sleepy portals,Clear'd them of heavy vapours, burst them wideSuddenly on the ocean's chilly streams.The planet orb of fire, whereon he rodeEach day from east to west the heavens through, 270Spun round in sable curtaining of clouds;Not therefore veiled quite, blindfold, and hid,But ever and anon the glancing spheres,Circles, and arcs, and broad-belting colure,
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