<h3><SPAN name="Obsession" id="Obsession"></SPAN>Obsession</h3>
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Great forests, you alarm me like a mighty fane;<br/>
Like organ-tones you roar, and in our hearts of stone,<br/>
Where ancient sobs vibrate, O halls of endless pain!<br/>
The answering echoes of your "De Profundis" moan.<br/>
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I hate thee, Ocean! hate thy tumults and thy throbs,<br/>
My spirit finds them in himself. This bitter glee<br/>
Of vanquished mortals, full of insults and of sobs,<br/>
I hear it in the mighteous laughter of the sea.<br/>
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O starless night! thy loveliness my soul inhales,<br/>
Without those starry rays which speak a language known,<br/>
For I desire the dark, the naked and the lone.<br/>
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But e'en those darknesses themselves to me are veils,<br/>
Where live—and, by the millions 'neath my eyelids prance,<br/>
Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance.<br/></p>
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