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XI.

After the Terror.

⁠"Down came the storm! In ruins fell
⁠The worn-out world we knew.
⁠It pass'd, that elemental swell—
⁠Again appear'd the blue;
⁠The sun shone in the new-wash'd sky,
⁠And what from heaven saw he?
⁠Blocks of the past, like icebergs high,
⁠Float on a rolling sea!"
⁠—MATTHEW ARNOLD, Obermann once more.