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XI.

After the Terror.

"Down came the storm! In ruins fell
The worn-out world we knew.
It pass'd, that elemental swell—
Again appear'd the blue;
The sun shone in the new-wash'd sky,
And what from heaven saw he?
Blocks of the past, like icebergs high,
Float on a rolling sea!"
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Obermann once more.

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