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By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed / From the cliff where she lay in the Sun / Fell the Stone / To the Tarn where the daylight is lost, / So she fell from the light of the Sun / And alone!
Now the fall was ordained from the first / With the Goat and the Cliff and the Tarn, / But the Stone / Knows only her life is accursed / As she sinks from the light of the Sun / And alone!
Oh Thou Who has builded the World, / Oh Thou Who has lighted the Sun, / Oh Thou Who has darkened the Tarn, / Judge Thou / The sin of the Stone that was hurled / By the goat from the light of the Sun, / As she sinks in the mire of the Tarn, / Even now -- even now -- even now!