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He now looked like a monkey: .... "long, and lank and brown, As in the ribb'd sea sand!" "Gracious heavens!" I exclaimed, "what would become of the world, if clothes went out of fashion?" "Humph! one half of us, my dear fellow, would commit suicide." At the upper end of the bath was a semicircular platform somewhat loftier than the rest, called the Amphitheatre.
The heights were still a weary way ahead: but I could mark their steep sides ribb'd with boulders. Till these were passed, there was no chance to hide. The parties in this race could see each other all the way, and must ride it out. And all the way the ground kept rising. Once she flung up her head and I caught sight of her nostril, red as fire, and her poor eyes starting.
Gray moss has clad the altar stone, The holy image is o'erthrown, The bell has ceased to toll, The long ribb'd aisles are burst and shrunk, The holy shrines to ruin sunk, Departed is the pious monk, God's blessing on his soul!
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