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This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, / Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; / But front their silent pipes no anthem pealing / Startles the villages with strange alarms.
Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, / When the death-angel touches those swift keys / What loud lament and dismal Miserere / Will mingle with their awful symphonies