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OFF PROVINCETOWN.

(THE WRECK OF THE GIOVANNI.)

THE winter wind smites angrily

The palm of the gray sea;

The foam drives white across the beach, -

The clouds as black can be!

The sun drops suddenly downward thro'

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A lane of purple mist;

The clouds hang low; the waves run high;

And sea and sky have kist.

The wind is wroth, and madly hurls

The blinding volleys of spray

Westward, shoreward, growing louder

To the close o' the sombre day.

The long Cape groans and shudders

At the fierce blows of the storm;

But the village windows are lighted,

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