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"A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, to waylay. A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death."

him at his sport erewhile, The bright exulting boy, Like summer's lightning came the smile Of his young spirit's joy; A flash that wheresoe'er it broke, To life undreamt-of beauty woke.