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STORIED SONNET.

1 The weary traveller, who, all night long,
2 Has climb'd among the Alps' tremendous steeps,
3 Skirting the pathless precipice, where throng
4 Wild forms of danger; as he onward creeps
5 If, chance, his anxious eye at distance sees
6 The mountain-shepherd's solitary home,
7 Peeping from forth the moon-illumin'd trees,
8 What sudden transports to his bosom come!
9 But, if between some hideous chasm yawn,
10 Where the cleft pine a doubtful bridge displays,
11 In dreadful silence, on the brink, forlorn
12 He stands, and views in luna's dubious rays
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13 Far, far below, the torrent's rising surge,
14 And listens to the wild impetuous roar;
15 Still eyes the depth, still shudders on the verge,
16 Fears to return, nor dares to venture o'er.
17 Desperate, at length the tottering plank he tries,
18 His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks — he dies!

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Title (in Source Edition): STORIED SONNET.
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, pp. 52-53. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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