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  • And again, do not we squeak and gibber (in our discordant, screech-owlish debatings and recriminatings); and glide bodeful and feeble and fearful; or uproar (_poltern_), and revel in our mad Dance of the Dead, -- till the scent of the morning-air summons us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day?

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • (_poltern_), and revel in our mad Dance of the Dead, -- till the scent of the morning air summons us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day?

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

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