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First Line: Just now a beam of joy hung on his eye-lash
Last Line: Into a darkening hole.
Subject(s): Eyes; Happiness; Joy; Delight


JUST now a beam of joy hung on his eye-lash;
But, as I looked, it sunk into his eye,
Like a bruised worm writhing its form of rings
Into a darkening hole.





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