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...increasing fast, The topmost step the pair surmount, And lo, the canse of all ! Around, The circling cliffs a crater bound, — Cliffs damp with dark-green...midst, beneath a cloud That ever upward rolls and recks And hides the sky with its dim shroud, Look where upshoots a fuming fount, — Up through a blue...

...cautious climb the solid rime, Each step becomes a terrace broad — 58 A Latter-day Eden. [BOOK IV. Each terrace a wide basin brimmed With water, brilliant...sapphire steaming, In that coralline crater gleaming. CANTO V.] The Fountain- Terraces. 59 Upwelling ever, amethystal, Ebullient comes the bubbling crystal...

...Half-circling cliffs a crater bound ; Cliffs damp with dark green moss — their slopes All crimson stained with blots and streaks — White-mottled and vermilion-rusted....blue and boiling pool Perennial — a great sapphire streaming, In that coralline crater gleaming. Upwelling ever, amethystal, Ebullient comes the bubbling...

...circling cliffs a crater bound ; Cliffsdamp with dark green moss — their slopes All crimson stained with blots and streaks— White-mottled and vermilion-rusted....blue and boiling pool Perennial — a great sapphire streaming, In that coralline crater gleaming. Upwelling ever, amethystal, Ebullient comes the bubbling...

...with dark-green moas — their slopes All crimson-stained with blots and streaks — \Vhite-mottied and vermilion-rusted. And in the midst, beneath a...And hides the sky with its dim shroud, Look where upehoots a fuming fount — Up through a blue and boiling pool Perennial — a great sapphire steaming,...

...step the pair surmount. And lo, the cause of all! Around, The circling cliffs a crater bound— . . . And in the midst, beneath a cloud That ever upward...dim shroud, Look where upshoots a fuming fount— . . . Upwelling ever, amethystal, Ebullient conies the bubbling crystal! Still growing cooler and more...