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ON THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST: NIGHT by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR

First Line: O THE GLOOM OF THE NIGHT WITH THE WIND AND THE RAIN
Last Line: HOWLING IN, BEATING IN FROM THE DESOLATE MAIN.
Subject(s): NIGHT; STORMS; BEDTIME;
O THE gloom of the night with the wind and the rain
Howling in, beating in from the desolate main,
And anon with a cry o'er the tempest prevailing
Some wreck of the deep the wild ruin bewailing!
From the Shoals to Nantucket the lights are half hid
The rush and the roar of the breakers amid;
Ships turn from their moorings; the boats are adrift;
Not a merciful star looking down through a rift;
But blackness and fear with the wind and the rain
Howling in, beating in from the desolate main.



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