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The transport of a fierce and monstrous gladness / Spread through the multitudinous streets, fast flying / Upon the winds of fear; from his dull madness / The starveling waked, and died in joy; the dying, / Among the corpses in stark agony lying, / Just heard the happy tidings, and in hope / Closed their faint eyes; from house to house replying / With loud acclaim, the living shook Heaven's cope, / And filled the startled Earth with echoes: morn did ope