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Listless he eyes the palisades / And sentries in the glare; / 'Tis barren as a pelican-beach -- / But his world is ended there.
Nothing to do; and vacant hands / Bring on the idiot-pain; / He tries to think -- to recollect, / But the blur is on his brain.