“Where the path

Is lost in rank luxuriance, and to breathe

Is to inhale distemper, if not death;

Where the wild-boar retreats, when hunters chafe,

And, when the day-star flames, the buffalo-herd

Afflicted plunge into the stagnant pool,

Nothing discerned amid the water-leaves,

Save here and there the likeness of a head,

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