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What phantom is this that appears / Through the purple mist of the years, / Itself but a mist like these? / A woman of cloud and of fire; / It is she; it is Helen of Tyre, / The town in the midst of the seas.
O Tyre! in thy crowded streets / The phantom appears and retreats, / And the Israelites that sell / Thy lilies and lions of brass, / Look up as they see her pass, / And murmur "Jezebel!"