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ENOCH ARDEN.
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Have all his pretty young ones educated,And pass his days in peace among his own.
 Thus Enoch in his heart determined all:Then moving homeward came on Annie pale,Nursing the sickly babe, her latest-born.Forward she started with a happy cry,And laid the feeble infant in his arms;Whom Enoch took, and handled all his limbs,Appraised his weight and fondled father-like,But had no heart to break his purposesTo Annie, till the morrow, when he spoke.
 Then first since Enoch’s golden ring had girtHer finger, Annie fought against his will:Yet not with brawling opposition she,But manifold entreaties, many a tear,Many a sad kiss by day by night renew’d(Sure that all evil would come out of it)Besought him, supplicating, if he cared
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