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 1     2|     cliff, by bottom dark and drear;~And giddy precipice, where
 2     4|    the dismal forest dark and drear;~While they towards the
 3     6|      seems the cruel pass and drear.~Thus, in the sea engulphed,
 4     8|  labour which he bore~By that drear sandy way beside the sea,~
 5    14|       from the wintry tempest drear,~Which would have whelmed
 6    15|   right-hand path, abrupt and drear;~Since the chief city of
 7    20|     protection, in the forest drear,~Nor sought to make the
 8    23|   wood was loneliest and most drear,~To wander by close path
 9    24|      I traced into the forest drear;~Nor far within the greenwood
10    25| Girded with cliff and cavern, drear to see.~Bristling with rocks,
11    25|    even wore a visage sad and drear:~For he, that day, ill-tidings
12    26|    seems against that monster drear~To issue, with the same
13    34|      contrite made, in desert drear,~Was never seen a saint
14    34| ingrates' curse, the darkness drear~So waxed before him, and
15    34|     with this -- that sad and drear,~And seen by heaven and
16    40|       throughout that warfare drear~Waged by the pontiff, in
17    41|       my future days in exile drear,~God only knows, whose purpose
18    42|      parts so mountainous and drear,~There is not (through the
19    42|   place was roughest and most drear,~The sky disturbed he suddenly
20    45|      Ungiardo pent in dungeon drear.~ ~ XII~Here from attack
21    45|    and all evil, dreads, make drear~Winter within me many times
22    45|       into solitary woods and drear~That warrior had been hurried