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Enter - from this arch'd portal, look again,
Back, on the lessening woods and distant plain.
Ascend the steps - the high and fretted roof
Is woven by some Elfin hand aloof,
Whilst from the painted Windows’ long array,
A mellow'd light is shed, as not of day.
How gorgeous all! Oh never may the spell
Be broken, that array’d those radiant forms so well."
Enter - from this arch'd portal, look again,
Back, on the lessening woods and distant plain.
Ascend the steps - the high and fretted roof
Is woven by some Elfin hand aloof,
Whilst from the painted Windows’ long array,
A mellow'd light is shed, as not of day.
How gorgeous all! Oh never may the spell
Be broken, that array’d those radiant forms so well."