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Dear ruins! Many a year has been closed, many a month, holy and unhallowed,
has elapsed, since I exchanged tender vows with their fair inhabitants!

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I stood asking news of the ruins concerning their lovely habitants;
but what avail my questions to dreary rocks, who answer them only by their echo?

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