He fumbles at your spirit |
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As players at the keys |
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Before they drop full music on; |
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He stuns you by degrees, |
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Prepares your brittle substance |
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For the ethereal blow, |
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By fainter hammers, further heard, |
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Then nearer, then so slow |
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Your breath has time to straighten, |
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Your brain to bubble cool,— |
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Deals one imperial thunderbolt |
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That scalps your naked soul.
/E.D |