See wallstead on Wiktionary
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"text": "Till the works of the city-dwellers, the works of the giants of earth,\nStood empty and lorn of the burst of the mighty reveller's mirth.\nWho wisely hath mus'd on this wallstead, and ponders this dark life well,\nn his heart he hath often bethought him of slayings many and fell[.]",
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