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ENOCH ARDEN.
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Alone at home, nor ventured out alone.What ail’d her then, that ere she enter’d, oftenHer hand dwelt lingeringly on the latch,Fearing to enter: Philip thought he knew:Such doubts and fears were common to her state,Being with child: but when her child was born,Then her new child was as herself renew’d,Then the new mother came about her heart,Then her good Philip was her all-in-all,And that mysterious instinct wholly died.
 And where was Enoch? prosperously sail’dThe ship ‘Good Fortune,’ tho’ at setting forthThe Biscay, roughly ridging eastward, shookAnd almost overwhelm’d her, yet unvextShe slipt across the summer of the world,Then after a long tumble about the CapeAnd frequent interchange of foul and fair,She passing thro’ the summer world again,The breath of heaven came continually
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