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he hurried at his words, beset with fears,For there were sleeping dragons all around,At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears--Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found.--In all the house was heard no human sound.A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door;The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,Flutter'd in the besieging wind's uproar;And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor. 360
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