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/ Is mine the part of no companion hand / Of help, except my shadow's silent self? / A moonlight traveller in Fancy's land / Of leering gnome and hollow-laughing elf;
/ Whose forests deepen and whose moon goes down, / When Night's blind shadow shall usurp my own; / And, mid the dust and wreck of some old town, / The City of Dreams, I grope and fall alone.