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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Staircase Of Notre Dame, Paris
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As one who, groping in a narrow stair, 
Hath a strong sound of bells upon his ears, 
Which, being at a distance off, appears 
Quite close to him because of the pent air: 
So with this France. She stumbles file and square 
Darkling and without space for breath: each one 
Who hears the thunder says: “It shall anon 
Be in among her ranks to scatter her.” 
This may be; and it may be that the storm 
Is spent in rain upon the unscathed seas, 
Or wasteth other countries ere it die: 
Till she,—having climbed always through the swarm 
Of darkness and of hurtling sound,—from these 
Shall step forth on the light in a still sky.
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