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The Voice Of Ocean

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A cry went through the darkness; and the moon,     Hurrying through storm, gazed with a ghastly face,     Then cloaked herself in scud: the merman race     Of surges ceased; and then th' Aeolian croon     Of the wild siren, Wind, within the shrouds     Sunk to a sigh. The ocean in that place     Seemed listening; haunted, for a moment's space,     By something dread that cried against the clouds.     Mystery and night; and with them fog and rain:     And then that cry again as if the deep     Uttered its loneliness in one dark word:     Her horror of herself; her Titan pain;     Her monsters; and the dead that she must keep,     Has kept, alone, for centuries, unheard.

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