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Passing through realms of star and cloud,
Scaling the mountains of the moon,
My soul ascends, my body bowed
O'er her fair form in seeming swoon,
Unstrung by Love's almighty tune,
Reels far below; sensations crowd
Upon sensations, like the waves
Follow waves shorewards, so they beat
Upon my being; each one paves
The way for its successor's feet
To follow faster, till with heat
Made faint, they trip among the graves
Of former joys; confused they fall
Dead 'mid dead ashes scattered there.
Earthbound once more, and stripped of all
Illusions, through the breathless air
My soul sinks slowly back, aware
Of waiting Sleep's incorporate pall.
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