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THE GIAOUR.

♦ And rave a* to some bloody band

♦ Fresh sever'd from its parent limb,

♦ Invisible to all hut him,

♦ Which beckons onward to his grave, 83o

♦ And lures to leap into the wave.”

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Dark and unearthly is the scowlThat glares beneath his dusky cowl:

The flash of that dilating eye

Reveals too much of times gone by; 833

Though varying, indistinct its hue.

Oft will his glance the gazer rue.

For in it lurks that nameless spellWhich speaks, itself unspeakable,

A spirit yet unqucllcd and high, 8*|C.

That claims and keeps ascendancy;

And like the bird whose pinions quake,

But cannot fly the gazing snake,

Will others quail beneath his look,

Nor 'scape the glance they scarce can brook.From him the half-affrighted Friar C^liWhen met alone would fain retire,

As if that eye and hitter smiteTransferred to others fear and guile :

Not oft to smile dcscendcth lie, 85o

And when he doth 'tis sad to secThat he but mocks at Misery.