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ENOCH ARDEN.
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 And Enoch faced this morning of farewellBrightly and boldly. All his Annie’s fears,Save, as his Annie’s, were a laughter to him.Yet Enoch as a brave God-fearing manBow’d himself down, and in that mysteryWhere God-in-man is one with man-in-God,Pray’d for a blessing on his wife and babesWhatever came to him: and then he said‘Annie, this voyage by the grace of GodWill bring fair weather yet to all of us.Keep a clean hearth and a clear fire for me,For I’ll be back, my girl, before you know it.’Then lightly rocking baby’s cradle ‘and he,This pretty, puny, weakly little one,—Nay—for I love him all the better for it—God bless him, he shall sit upon my kneesAnd I will tell him tales of foreign parts,And make him merry, when I come home again.Come, Annie, come, cheer up before I go.’
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