Phantasmagoria, and other poems
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that Idea
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glecting Sou
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through the
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rapture,
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suns have dr
full stop, a
succeeded
the load
the railwa
he tumult o
e engine's
tread of po
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the echo
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dreams a d
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voice, nor
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vampire's r
it answered,
thin the n
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as somethin
d me to the
was anythin
unpleasan
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grand were
choose but d
dare to
leave her,
n tangled
wers of though
whisper i
truth: you k
ink beneat
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one three-q
left him - l
depths of
no means a
e weltered
hrough denser
lenched than t
d in Dawn o
owned the m
fault," was
gh Noon, th
his head eac
st rose hi
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mly on the
ighed, "what
, darkest w
ld grasp of
earth, and h
unaided,
re silence
eet music t
thus, in d
and Myste
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n-dashed and
ignorance o
what I bro
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flow of si
of forgo
trembling
th thine was
t in his i
on each a
he other's bl
ach were be
o each was w
ed dullard,
LANCHE OF WOE!"