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ENOCH ARDEN.
For her or his dear children, not to go.He not for his own self caring but her,Her and her children, let her plead in vain;So grieving held his will, and bore it thro’.
 For Enoch parted with his old sea-friend,Bought Annie goods and stores, and set his handTo fit their little streetward sitting-roomWith shelf and corner for the goods and stores.So all day long till Enoch’s last at home,Shaking their pretty cabin, hammer and axe,Auger and saw, while Annie seem’d to hearHer own death-scaffold raising, shrill’d and rang,Till this was ended, and his careful hand,—The space was narrow,—having order’d allAlmost as neat and close as Nature packsHer blossom or her seedling, paused; and he,Who needs would work for Annie to the last,Ascending tired, heavily slept till morn.
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