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QUEEN MAB.
VII.

That wonderous and eternal fane,
Where pain and pleasure, good and evil join,
To do the will of strong necessity,
And life, in multitudinous shapes,
Still pressing forward where no term can be,
Like hungry and unresisting flame
Curls round the eternal columns of its strength.