...cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer, The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Down the broad valley fast and far The troubled army...glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead. I have read, in the marvelous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of Phantoms...

...cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning pra3'er, The white pavilions rose and fell 20 On the alarmed air. Down the broad valley fast and far The troubled army...glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead. 25 I have read, in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms...

...cathedral bell Proclaimed the hour of prayer, The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. " Down the broad valley fast and far The troubled army...glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead." The poet applies this story to the army of phantoms vast and wan that beleaguer the human soul. " And...

...cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer, The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. 20 of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgias Secundas was then alive, — I0 Snuffy I have read, in the marvelous heart of man, -5 That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms...

...cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer, The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Down the broad valley fast and far The troubled army fled: Up rose the glorious morning star, I have read in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms...

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...cathedral bell proclaimed the morning prayer, the white pavilions rose and fell on the alarmed air. Down the broad valley fast and far the troubled army...glorious morning star, the ghastly host was dead. Form: Ballad. ABAB end rhymes — Vocabulary: Beleaguered: besieged: specters: ghosts: Prague: capital...

...bell Proclaimed the morning prayer, The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Down the valley fast and far The troubled army fled; Up rose...glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead. At the final stanza, Craw's voice swelled like the ringing cathedral bell itself. I gripped the talisman...