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ENOCH ARDEN.
Amazed and melted all who listen’d to it:And clothes they gave him and free passage home;But oft he work’d among the rest and shookHis isolation from him. None of theseCame from his country, or could answer him,If question’d, aught of what he cared to know.And dull the voyage was with long delays,The vessel scarce sea-worthy; but evermoreHis fancy fled before the lazy windReturning, till beneath a clouded moonHe like a lover down thro’ all his bloodDrew in the dewy meadowy morning-breathOf England, blown across her ghostly wall:And that same morning officers and menLevied a kindly tax upon themselves,Pitying the lonely man, and gave him it:Then moving up the coast they landed him,Ev’n in that harbour whence he sail’d before.
 There Enoch spoke no word to any one,
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