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112 Spirits of elfin power the earth are haunting,

Silently joining in the fairy bout:

The hour of ban and spell will soon be here;

Closed be each mortal eye and mortal ear.

VISION OF THE POOR.

a dream that was not all a dream"—

I saw the Poor, the sad and struggling Poor,

Buffeting with the waves of Life's dark stream,

And anon sinking to rise nevermore.

I saw all forms of suffering that come

From the unequal fortunes of the world;

I saw the Book of Death all writ with doom,

And saw the victims to their destinies hurled.