Poems . e mighty Hall,Dumb, dismally dispageanted, laid bareHis ghostly galleries to the mournful moon ;And Night came down, and Silence, and the twainMingled beneath the starlight. Wheeled at willThe flitter-winged bat round lonely towersWhere, one by one, from darkening casements diedThe tapers shine ; the howlet from the hillsWhooped ; and Elizabeth, alone with NightAnd Silence, and the Ghost of her slain lost among the ruins of that day. As when the buffeting gusts, that adverse blowOver the Caribbean Sea, conspireCoiifiicting breaths, and, savagely begot,The lierce tornado rotat

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Poems . e mighty Hall,Dumb, dismally dispageanted, laid bareHis ghostly galleries to the mournful moon ;And Night came down, and Silence, and the twainMingled beneath the starlight. Wheeled at willThe flitter-winged bat round lonely towersWhere, one by one, from darkening casements diedThe tapers shine ; the howlet from the hillsWhooped ; and Elizabeth, alone with NightAnd Silence, and the Ghost of her slain lost among the ruins of that day. As when the buffeting gusts, that adverse blowOver the Caribbean Sea, conspireCoiifiicting breaths, and, savagely begot,The lierce tornado rotatory sweeps centripetal, or, all forces joined,Whirls circling oer the maddened waves, and theyLift up their foaming backs beneath the keelOf some frail vessel, and, careering highOver a sunken rock, with a sudden yjlungeConfound her,—stunned and strained, upon the peakPoising one moment, ere shefoiward fallTo float, dishelmed, a wreck upon the waves :So rose, engendered by what furious blasts.

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