"I know the covert, for thence came I hither."
Thus brief; then with beseeching eyes she went
With backward footing through the shade a space :
He follow'd, and she turn'd to lead the way
Through aged boughs, that yielded like the mist
Which eagles cleave upmounting from their nest.

Meanwhile in other realms big tears were shed,
More sorrow like to this, and such like woe,
Too huge for mortal tongue or pen of scribe:
The Titans fierce, self-hid, or prison-bound,
Groan'd for the old allegiance once more,
And listen'd in sharp pain for Saturn's voice.
But one of the whole mammoth-brood still kept
His sov'reignty, and rule, and majesty ;-
Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fire

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Still sat, still snuff'd the incense, teeming up
From man to the sun's God; yet unsecure :

For as among us mortals omens drear
Fright and perplex, so also shuddered he—

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Not at dog's howl, or gloom-bird's hated screech,
Or the familiar visiting of one

Upon the first toll of his passing-bell,

Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp;
But horrors, portion'd to a giant nerve,

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Oft made Hyperion ache. His palace bright
Bastion'd with pyramids of glowing gold,
And touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks,

Glar'd a blood-red through all its thousand courts,
Arches, and domes, and fiery galleries;

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And all its curtains of Aurorian clouds

Flush'd angerly: while sometimes eagle's wings,

Unseen before by Gods or wondering men,

Darken'd the place; and neighing steeds were heard,

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Not heard before by Gods or wondering men
Also, when he would taste the spicy wreaths
Of incense, breath'd aloft from sacred hills,
Instead of sweets, his ample palate took
Savour of poisonous brass and metal sick:
And so, when harbour'd in the sleepy west,
After the full completion of fair day,-
For rest divine upon exalted couch
And slumber in the arms of melody,
He pac'd away the pleasant hours of ease
With stride colossal, on from hall to hall;
While far within each aisle and deep recess,
His winged minions in close clusters stood,
Amaz'd and full of fear; like anxious men
Who on wide plains gather in panting troops,
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Even now, while Saturn, rous'd from icy trance,
Went step for step with Thea through the woods,
Hyperion, leaving twilight in the rear,
Came slope upon the threshold of the west;
Then, as was wont, his palace-door flew ope
In smoothest silence, save what solemn tubes,
Blown by the serious Zephyrs, gave of sweet
And wandering sounds, slow-breathed melodies;
And like a rose in vermeil tint and shape,
In fragrance soft, and coolness to the eye,
That inlet to severe magnificence

Stood full blown, for the God to enter in.

He enter'd, but he enter'd full of wrath;

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His flaming robes stream'd out beyond his heels,
And gave a roar, as if of earthly fire,

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That scar'd away the meek ethereal Hours

And made their dove-wings tremble. On he flared,

From stately nave to nave, from vault to vault,
Through bowers of fragrant and enwreathed light,
And diamond-paved lustrous long arcades,
Until he reach'd the great main cupola;
There standing fierce beneath, he stampt his foot,
And from the basements deep to the high towers
Jarr'd his own golden region; and before
The quavering thunder thereupon had ceas'd,
His voice leapt out, despite of godlike curb,
To this result: "O dreams of day and night!
"O monstrous forms! O effigies of pain!
"O spectres busy in a cold, cold gloom!

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O lank-ear'd Phantoms of black-weeded pools!

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"Why do I know ye? why have I seen ye? why "Is my eternal essence thus distraught

"To see and to behold these horrors new?

"Am I to leave this haven of my rest,

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"This cradle of my glory, this soft clime,

"This calm luxuriance of blissful light,
"These crystalline pavilions, and pure fanes,

"Of all my lucent empire? It is left

"Deserted, void, nor any haunt of mine.

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"The blaze, the splendor, and the symmetry,

"I cannot see-but darkness, death and darkness.

"Even here, into my centre of repose,

"The shady visions come to domineer, .

"Insult, and blind, and stifle up my pomp.-
"Fall!-No, by Tellus and her briny robes!
"Over the fiery frontier of my realms.
"I will advance a terrible right arm
"Shall scare that infant thunderer, rebel Jove,
"And bid old Saturn take his throne again."-
He spake, and ceas'd, the while a heavier threat

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