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She looked unto the east and saw / A pallid stretch of sickly sea; / Unto the west she turned and met / The land's aridity.
A bloodless wave of rising sun / Was flung across her open door; / It smote her like a slimy thing, / And crawled along the floor.
Her hands took up the weary round -- / A colourless and common part. / Her stillborn hopes were buried in / The desert of her heart.