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ENOCH ARDEN.
Than his had been, or hers; a wish renew’d,When two years after came a boy to beThe rosy idol of her solitudes,While Enoch was abroad on wrathful seas,Or often journeying landward; for in truthEnoch’s white horse, and Enoch’s ocean-spoilIn ocean-smelling osier, and his face,Rough-redden’d with a thousand winter gales,Not only to the market-cross were known,But in the leafy lanes behind the down,Far as the portal-warding lion-whelp,And peacock-yewtree of the lonely Hall,Whose Friday fare was Enoch’s ministering.
 Then came a change, as all things human change.Ten miles to northward of the narrow portOpen’d a larger haven: thither usedEnoch at times to go by land or sea;And once when there, and clambering on a mastIn harbour, by mischance he slipt and fell:
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