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"The Return of the Sire de Nesle."
A. D. 16
My towers at last! These rovings end, / Their thirst is slaked in larger dearth: / The yearning infinite recoils, / For terrible is earth.
Kaf thrusts his snouted crags through fog: / Araxes swells beyond his span, / And knowledge poured by pilgrimage / Overflows the banks of man.
But thou, my stay, thy lasting love / One lonely good, let this but be!
Weary to view the wide world's swarm, / But blest to fold but thee.