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<p id="id00573" style="margin-top: 2em"><i>The Flood</i></p>
<p id="id00574">Waves trough, rebound, and furious boil again,<br/>
Like plunging monsters rising underneath,<br/>
Who at the top curl up a shaggy mane,<br/>
A moment catching at a surer breath,<br/>
Then plunging headlong down and down, and on<br/>
Each following whirls the shadow of the last;<br/>
And other monsters rise when those are gone,<br/>
Crest their fringed waves, plunge onward and are past.<br/>
The chill air comes around me oceanly,<br/>
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;<br/>
Strange birds like snowspots oer the whizzing sea<br/>
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.<br/>
On roars the flood, all restless to be free,<br/>
Like Trouble wandering to Eternity.<br/></p>
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