And now they change ; a paler shadow strews
Its mantle o'er the mountains : parting day
Dies like the dolphin whom each pang imbues

With a new colour as it gasps away,
The last still loveliest, till—'tis gone, . . . . and all is gray.

BYRON. 1788–1824.

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