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The Something That Saved Him

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It was when     Whirls of thick waters laved me      Again and again,     That something arose and saved me;      Yea, it was then.      In that day     Unseeing the azure went I      On my way,     And to white winter bent I,      Knowing no May.      Reft of renown,     Under the night clouds beating      Up and down,     In my needfulness greeting      Cit and clown.      Long there had been     Much of a murky colour      In the scene,     Dull prospects meeting duller;      Nought between.      Last, there loomed     A closing-in blind alley,      Though there boomed     A feeble summons to rally      Where it gloomed.      The clock rang;     The hour brought a hand to deliver;      I upsprang,     And looked back at den, ditch and river,      And sang.

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