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On the blasted heathFell Upas sits, the hydra-tree of death.
— Upas
On the blasted heathFell Upas sits, the hydra-tree of death.
Farther on, there frowned a grove of blended banian boughs, thick-ranked manchineels, and many a upas; their summits gilded by the sun; but below, deep shadows, darkening night-shade ferns, and mandrakes.
No bird flies near, no tiger creeps;away with death upon its back.
