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By the hoof of the Wild Goat up-tossed / From the Cliff where She lay in the Sun, / Fell the Stone / To the Tarn where the daylight is lost; / So She fell from the light of the Sun, / And alone. / Now the fall was ordained from the first, / With the Goat and the Cliff and the Tarn, / But the Stone / Knows only Her life is accursed, / As She sinks in the depths of the Tarn, / And alone. / Oh, Thou who has builded the world / Oh, Thou who hast lighted the Sun! / Oh, Thou who hast darkened the Tarn! / Judge Thou / The Sin of the Stone that was hurled / By the Goat from the light of the Sun, / As She sinks in the mire of the Tarn, / Even now -- even now -- even now! / From the Unpublished Papers of McIntosh Jellaludin.
/ "Say, is it dawn, is it dusk in thy Bower, / Thou whom I long for, who longest for me? / Oh be it night -- be it -- "