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Charles Lamb - "As when a child..."
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As when a child on some long winter`s night 
Affrighted clinging to its Grandam`s knees 
With eager wond`ring and perturbed delight 
Listens strange tales of fearful dark decrees 
Muttered to wretch by necromantic spell; 
Or of those hags, who at the witching time 
Of murky midnight ride the air sublime, 
And mingle foul embrace with fiends of Hell: 
Cold Horror drinks its blood! Anon the tear 
More gentle starts, to hear the Beldame tell 
Of pretty babes, that loved each other dear, 
Murdered by cruel Uncle`s mandate fell: 
Ev`n such the shiv`ring joys thy tones impart, 
Ev`n so thou, Siddons! meltest my sad heart!
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