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So saying, he retired to his apartment, and was not again seen during that night. And aye, as if for death, some lonely trumpet peal'd. The Varangian, his head agitated with the weighty matters which imposed on him, stopt from time to time as he journeyed through the moonlight streets, to arrest passing ideas as they shot through his mind, and consider them with accuracy in all their bearings.
Beneath their fire in full career, Rush'd on the ponderous cuirassier, The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset roll'd along, Forth harbinger'd by fierce acclaim, That, from the shroud of smoke and flame, Peal'd wildly the imperial name.
It was also here, but not on this occasion, that the poet first became acquainted with the Albanian belief in second-hearing, to which he alludes in the same poem: Deep in whose darkly-boding ear The death-shot peal'd of murder near. "This superstition of a second-hearing," says Lord Byron, "fell once under my own observation. I rode up and inquired. 'We are in peril! he answered.
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