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/* Then brake the sword of her gladness thro' the midst of the hilt in twain, Ah me! and alas! for her mourning, that goodness should bear such pain And faith ever waken sorrow! Yea, so doth it run alway With the life of men, and to-morrow must they mourn who rejoice to-day! So it chanced that the queen one noontide in a restless slumber lay, 715 'Twas as if with a start she wakened and by lightning was borne away, And towards the clouds it bare her, and they smote her with mighty force, The fiery bolts of Heaven, as they sped on their downward course, And sparks sprang from her floating tresses mid the fire of the circling spheres, And the thunder crashed loud around her, and the rain-drops were burning tears. 720 */

Left-hand line numbers

This is the top of the next page of the same project as the previous example. Here, the line numbers were printed on the left, so we move them to the right-hand end of the line, leaving at least six spaces before each of them. It is not necessary to align them, as consistent page-to-page alignment is difficult to achieve in formatting, but easily done during post-processing.

The last two lines of this example didn't fit the book's width and had to be continued on the next line, but e-books do not have the same limitations, so we, as formatters, rejoin those lines.

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