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THE SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE.
"As one who, from the sunshine and the green, Enters the solid darkness of a cave, Nor knows what precipice or pit unseen May yawn before him with its sudden grave, And, with hushed breath, doth often forward lean, Dreaming he hears the splashing of a wave Dimly below, or feels a damper air From out some dreary chasm, he knows not where. " -- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.