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ON AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: STRUGGLING, AND FAINT, AND FAINTER DIDST THOU WANE
Last Line: THEIR BEAUTEOUS QUEEN AND SEIZE HER SACRED VEIL.
Subject(s): ECLIPSES; MOON;

Struggling, and faint, and fainter didst thou wane,
O Moon! and round thee all thy starry train
Came forth to help thee, with half-open eyes,
And trembled every one with still surprise,
That the black Spectre should have dared assail
Their beauteous queen and seize her sacred veil.



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