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ENOCH ARDEN.
Thro’ all his future; but now hastily caughtHis bundle, waved his hand, and went his way.
 She when the day, that Enoch mention’d, came,Borrow’d a glass, but all in vain: perhapsShe could not fix the glass to suit her eye;Perhaps her eye was dim, hand tremulous;She saw him not: and while he stood on deckWaving, the moment and the vessel past.
 Ev’n to the last dip of the vanishing sailShe watch’d it, and departed weeping for him;Then, tho’ she mourn’d his absence as his grave,Set her sad will no less to chime with his,But throve not in her trade, not being bredTo barter, nor compensating the wantBy shrewdness, neither capable of lies,Nor asking overmuch and taking less,And still foreboding ‘what would Enoch say?’For more than once, in days of difficulty
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