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BLACK MOUNTAIN.

So high that if it higher were,

We know the very slightest stir

Would cast it down all overflowed.

The mountains round in masses lay

Like huge leviathans asleep,

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Adown whose sides the black of night

Crouched like a coward from the light

All hiding in its caverns deep;

Where yet one gleam, a beacon shone

Like lost star wandering from its way,

One light alone in you sweet vale

Which Osceola frowns upon,

Forever lovely Waterville,

Set in the green of many a hill,

Whose six cascades in ripples fall

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