Chapter 13 No.13

In its train

Follow all things unholy-love of gold-

The phantom comes and lays upon his lids

A spell that murders sleep, and in his ear

Whispers a deathless word, and on his brain

Breathes a fierce thirst no water will allay-

He is its slave henceforth!

N. P. WILLIS.

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