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ENOCH ARDEN.
A carefuller in peril, did not breatheFor leagues along that breaker-beaten coastThan Enoch. Likewise had he served a yearOn board a merchantman, and made himselfFull sailor; and he thrice had pluck’d a lifeFrom the dread sweep of the down-streaming seas:And all men look’d upon him favourably:And ere he touch’d his one-and-twentieth MayHe purchased his own boat, and made a homeFor Annie, neat and nestlike, halfway upThe narrow street that clamber’d toward the mill.
 Then, on a golden autumn eventide,The younger people making holiday,With bag and sack and basket, great and small,Went nutting to the hazels. Philip stay’d(His father lying sick and needing him)An hour behind; but as he climb’d the hill,Just where the prone edge of the wood beganTo feather toward the hollow, saw the pair,
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