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Historical Manual of English Prosody

Note 174 — Chapter III · ORIGINS OF LINES AND STANZAS

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I seal myself upon thee with my might, Abiding always out of all men's sight, Until God loosen over sea and land The thunder of the trumpets of the night—

The only difference of these is that FitzGerald, following, I believe, his Persian original, left the third lines quite blank, while Mr. Swinburne rhymed these in adjacent stanzas.

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