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...dark presage must be true. — I would the Fiend, to whom belongs The vengeance due to all her wrongs, Would spare me but a day ! For wasting fire, and dying...on earth he sunk, Supported by the trembling Monk. With fruitless labour, Clara bound, And strove to staunch the gushing wound ; The Monk, with unavailing...

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