The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest... Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson - Sida 195 efter Henry Reed - 1855 - 387 sidor Obegränsad förhandsgranskning -
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