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 Unresting hydras wrought of bloody light Dip to the ocean's phosphorescent caves.

So Fancy's carvel seeks an isle afar, Led by the Scorpion's rubescent star, Until in templed zones she smiles to see Black incense glow, and scarlet-bellied snakes Sway to the tawny flutes of sorcery. There priestesses in purple robes hold each A sultry garnet to the sea-linkt sun, Or, just before the colored morning shakes A splendor on the ruby-sanded beach, Cry unto BetelgueseBetelgeuse [sic] a mystic word. But Fancy, amorous of evening, takes Her flight to groves whence lustrous rivers run, Thro' hyacinth, a minster wall to gird, Where, in the hushed cathedral's jeweled gloom, Ere Faith return, and azure censers fume, She kneels, in solemn quietude, to mark The suppliant day from gorgeous oriels float