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Then, at the point of death, Sohrab replied: "A life of blood indeed, thou dreadful Unwillingly the spirit fled away, man!

Till now all strength was ebbed, and from his limbs,

But thou shalt yet have peace; only not

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Regretting the warm mansion which it left,

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White, with eyes closed; only when heavy Out of the mist and hum of that low land, gasps, Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, Deep heavy gasps quivering through all Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian his frame,

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Convulsed him back to life, he opened

them,

And fixed them feebly on his father's face;

waste,

Under the solitary moon; - he flowed

Right for the polar star, past Orgunjè, 880 Brimming, and bright, and large; then sands began

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And only the white sheep are sometimes Come, let me read the oft-read tale again!

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spare,

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Thy dark vague eyes, and soft abstracted Wrapt in thy cloak and battling with the air

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snow,

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That thou wert wandered from the studious walls

To learn strange arts, and join a gipsytribe;

And thou from earth art gone

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In autumn, on the skirts of Bagley Long since, and in some quiet churchyard

Wood

Where most the gipsies by the turf-edged

way

Pitch their smoked tents, and every bush

you see

With scarlet patches tagged and shreds of

gray,

Above the forest-ground called Thessaly

The blackbird, picking food,

laid

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Sees thee, nor stops his meal, nor fears at all;

So often has he known thee past hin

stray,

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No, no, thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!

For what wears out the life of mortal men?

'Tis that from change to change their being rolls;

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Free from the sick fatigue, the languid With close-lipped patience for our only

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