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Far thro' the silence of the unbroken plainThe bittern's boom was heard, hoarse, heavy, deep,It made most fitting music to the scene.Black clouds, driven fast before the stormy wind,Swept shadowing; thro' their broken folds the moonStruggled sometimes with transitory ray,And made the moving darkness visible.And now arrived beside a fenny lakeShe stands: amid its stagnate waters, hoarseThe long sedge rustled to the gales of night.An age-worn bark receives the Maid, impell'dBy powers unseen; then did the moon display

    with me; and lest the body should appear dead, I will send into it a vital breath."

    The body however by a strange sympathy was affected like the spirit; for when the foul and fetid smoke that arose from tithes witheld, had nearly suffocated Thurcillus, and made him cough twice, those who were near his body said that it coughed twice about the same time.

    Matthew Paris

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