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 RANGE fabled face! From sterile shore to shore O'er plungmg seas, thick-sprent with glistening brine, The voyagers of the World with sail and heavy oar Have sought thy shrine. Beauty inexorable hath lured them on: Remote unnamed stars enclustering gleam— Burn in thy flowered locks, though creeping daybreak wan
 * Prove thee but dream.


 * Noonday to night the enigma of thine eyes
 * Frets with desire their travel-wearied brain,

Till in the vast of dark the ice-cold moon arise
 * And pour them peace again;
 * And with malign mirage uprears an isle

Of fountain and palm, and courts of jasmine and rose, Whence far decoy of siren throats their souls beguile, And maddening fragrance flows.