| Strangely confused in my mind
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| Aeons elapsed in a blink of an eye
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| Slumber of utterly ravenous kind
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| Waters of forgetfulness: by and by …
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| Vast desire to drift off to sleep
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| Yet trembling at the thought of it
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| Lest there be some terrific dream
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| Like burning charcoal in a pit
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| Like hundredfold calamities
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| Most ghastly and ferocious
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| Like misery and monstrosities
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| Abandoned and forlorn
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| Bed myself in waves of disquietude
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| Bed myself in a multitude of gloom
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| Bed myself in pernicious solitude
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| Bed myself in foreboding doom
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| I feel gray and leafless
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| My roots concealed in morass
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| Dreary water lies intense and black
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| Skeleton arms waving to and fro
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| Crying to the silent waters of mercy
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| In the shrill and piercing accents
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| Of the most acute agony and despair
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| Bed myself in waves of disquietude
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| Bed myself in a multitude of gloom
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| Bed myself in pernicious solitude
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| Bed myself in foreboding doom |