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Rh Then wild creations haunted him, and shapes Of terror and of evil; and a form, A wan and wasted form, rose on his dreams, Till rest was agony! There was a fire, By day and night, consuming at his heart; A withering seal was set on every thought— All ministers of bitterness; he shunn'd The haunts of pleasure; still that dying look Of sweet forgiveness, and the last faint tone Of her he had deserted, tortur'd him.

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She mark'd the change (his fair Zoraide), and strove, With all a woman's winning tenderness, To soothe his gloomy spirit, but in vain— The shadow of his soul fell o'er her too: