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THE STUDENT VAGABOND

". . . Prodigious shapes

Huddled in gray annihilation, split,

Jammed in the hard, black deep; and over these.

The anatomies of unknown winged things,

And fishes which were isles of living scale,

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And serpents, bony chains, twisted around

The iron crags, or within heaps of dust

To which the tortuous strength of their last pangs

Had crushed the iron crags; and over these

The jagged alligator, and the might

Of earth-convulsing behemoth, which once

Were monarch beasts, and on the slimy shores,

And weed-overgrown continents of earth,

Increased and multiplied like summer worms

On an abandoned corpse, till the blue globe

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