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, a melancholy poem, in which the reader is subjected to a series of heart pangs, and is forced to listen to a music, in which the dominant motif is a terrible, oppressive and crushing silence. We are compelled to strain our ear to catch the least noise which might break that silence—but it never comes.

J.C.