| Where forest stream went through the wood
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| And silent all the stens there stood
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| Of tall trees, moveless, hanging dark
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| With mottled shadows on on their bark
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| As faint as deepest sleeper’s breath
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| An echo came as cold as death
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| Long are the paths, of shadow made
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| Where no foot’s print is ever laid
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| No moon is there, no voice, no sound
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| Of beating heart; |
| a sigh profound
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| Once in each age as each age dies
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| Alone is heard. |
| Far, far it lies,
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| The Land of Waiting where the Dead sit,
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| In their thought’s shadow, by no moon lit
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| Upon the plain, there rushed forth and high
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| Shadows at the dead of night and mirrored in the skies
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| Far far away beyong might of day
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| And there lay the land of dead of mortal cold decay |