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overbending

vb. (present participle of overbend English)

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XIV Thus speaking, the trooped apparitions Began to disband And resolve them in two: Those whose record was lovely and true Bore to northward for home: those of bitter traditions Again left the land, XV And, towering to seaward in legions, They paused at a spot Overbending the Race - That engulphing, ghast, sinister place - Whither headlong they plunged, to the fathomless regions Of myriads forgot.