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SEA DREAMS.

A city clerk, but gently born and bred;His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child—One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three years old:They, thinking that her clear germander eyeDroopt in the giant-factoried city-gloom,Came, with a month's leave given them, to the sea:For which his gains were dock'd, however small:Small were his gains, and hard his work; besides,Their slender household fortunes (for the manHad risk'd his little) like the little thrift,Trembled in perilous places o'er a deep:And oft, when sitting all alone, his face
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