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Excerpt from The Rock of Arranmore: A Narrative Dramatic Poem in Three Scenes With Introduction
Tween these the earth revolves her nights and days, Her climes and seasons four; but they unmov'd, O'er fields of light, their watch incessant keep, Their mystic shapes in priestly purple stol'd, And wing'd like angels in cathedral hues That lume the solemn chancel. In like mood, And ?oating eastward, Eire's Isle, their search, Leaving the western ocean in night's shade, Attended by the morning star, appears. In size, her disk, a satellite might seem, E'en the chaste moon of the great continent She follow'd from the deep; and shines to view, A beauty austere; a stern recluse or sphere Where gods might dwell, to which, the world's approach Were a defilement: save what lingering smiles, Under her veil of ?itting clouds, disclose A land of verdurous life, where all the blooms That earth with heaven compare, so native breathe Their perfumes on her greens. There Aina first, Her fairy world began, with vivid scenes To mortals bless'd; all beauty's naked forms, Life size or puny, as they list, but chaste.
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