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Sand of the Desert.
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And onward, and across the setting sun,
 Across the boundless plain,
The column and its broader shadow run,
 Till thought pursues in vain.

The vision vanishes! These walls again
 Shut out the lurid sun,
Shut out the hot, immeasurable plain;
 The half-hour's sand is run!

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