Page 13 - The Raven

a counterpart to the stone, and
looked like a marble image making
love to the other marble. And this
unhappy fancy fixing itself in his
head, as he searched for it
everywhere with the lanthorn of
desire, it grew in four seconds from
a picktooth to a pole, from a crab-
apple to an Indian pumpkin, from
barber's embers to a glass furnace,
and from a dwarf to a giant;
insomuch that he thought of nothing
else than the image of that object
encrusted in his heart as stone to
stone. Wherever he turned his eyes
that form was always presented to him
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