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ENOCH ARDEN.
Out of full heart and boundless gratitudeLight on a broken word to thank him with.But Philip was her children’s all-in-all;From distant corners of the street they ranTo greet his hearty welcome heartily;Lords of his house and of his mill were they;Worried his passive ear with petty wrongsOr pleasures, hung upon him, play’d with himAnd call’d him Father Philip. Philip gain’dAs Enoch lost; for Enoch seem’d to themUncertain as a vision or a dream,Faint as a figure seen in early dawnDown at the far end of an avenue,Going we know not where: and so ten years,Since Enoch left his hearth and native land,Fled forward, and no news of Enoch came.
 It chanced one evening Annie’s children long’dTo go with others, nutting to the wood,And Annie would go with them; then they begg’d
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