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Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake, / In the stately Morichal, {331b} / Sat an ancient Spanish Indian, / Peering through the columns tall.
Watching vainly for the flashing / Of the jewelled colibris; {331c} / Listening vainly for their humming / Round the honey-blossomed trees.