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Christopher Brennan - "I said, This misery must end: . ."Christopher Brennan - "I said, This misery must end: . ."
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        I said, This misery must end:         Shall I, that am a man and know         that sky and wind are yet my friend,         sit huddled under any blow?         so speaking left the dismal room         and stept into the mother-night         all fill`d with sacred quickening gloom         where the few stars burn`d low and bright,         and darkling on my darkling hill         heard thro` the beaches` sullen boom         heroic note of living will         rung trumpet-clear against the fight;         so stood and heard, and rais`d my eyes         erect, that they might drink of space,         and took the night upon my face,         till time and trouble fell away         and all my soul sprang up to feel         as one among the stars that reel         in rhyme on their rejoicing way,         breaking the elder dark, nor stay         but speed beyond each tramelling gyre,         till time and sorrow fall away         and night be wither`d up, and fire         consume the sickness of desire.
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