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 Themselves probationary, and denied Confessed to view by preternatural deed To overwhelm the will, save on some fated day Headstrong, or with petition'd might from God.


 * And such perhaps the guardian Power whose ken

Still dwelt on France. He from the Invisible World Burst on the eye, impregning Air With Voices and strange Shapes, illusions apt, Shadowy of Truth. And first a landscape rose More wild and waste and desolate, than where The white bear drifting on a field of ice Howls to her sunder'd cubs with piteous rage And savage agony. Mid the drear scene A craggy mass uprear'd its misty brow, Untouch'd by breath of Spring, unwont to know Red Summer's influence, or the chearful face Of Autumn; yet its fragments many and huge Astounded ocean with the dreadful dance Of whirlpools numberless, absorbing oft The