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SEA-PICTURES; OFF THE HAVEN by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: UP STOLE A FOG, A CHILL AND GHASTLY THING
Last Line: LAY GREEN AND GLAD BEYOND THE WATERS GRAY.
Subject(s): FOG; NIGHT; SEA; SOUL; HAZE; BEDTIME; OCEAN;
UP stole a fog, a chill and ghastly thing,
That gloomed the sea and hid her face from me;
My soul was like a bird with broken wing;
A dismal bell warned homing barks away.

Then shot a sun-shaft; like a phantom host,
Born of the night and mailed in sullen white,
The riven mists drew off, and lo! the coast
Lay green and glad beyond the waters gray.



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