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DROWNED.

ON the beach where break the surges,

'Mid the flashing crystal spray,

As the fog rolled off at dawning,

Cold and still a fair girl lay.

Tangled folds of frozen ringlets

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Half concealed the lovely face,

And the hand of cunning master

Could have added naught of grace.

Soft the wild waves broke about her,

Sadly rolled they out again;

Others came to kiss the fairest

Martyr to the boisterous main.

Richer grew the hue of heaven,

And the sun rose from the east,

While the waves kept chanting requiems,

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