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ENOCH ARDEN.
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 For cups and silver on the burnish’d boardSparkled and shone; so genial was the hearth:And on the right hand of the hearth he sawPhilip, the slighted suitor of old times,Stout, rosy, with his babe across his knees;And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,A later but a loftier Annie Lee,Fair-hair’d and tall, and from her lifted handDangled a length of ribbon and a ringTo tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d;And on the left hand of the hearth he sawThe mother glancing often toward her babe,But turning now and then to speak with him,Her son, who stood beside her tall and strong,And saying that which pleased him, for he smiled.
 Now when the dead man come to life beheldHis wife his wife no more, and saw the babeHers, yet not his, upon the father’s knee,
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