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Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm	A
And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands	B
Beyond red roofs about a narrow wharf	C
In cluster then a moulder'd church and higher	D
A long street climbs to one tall tower'd mill	E
And high in heaven behind it a gray down	F
With Danish barrows and a hazelwood	G
By autumn nutters haunted flourishes	H
Green in a cuplike hollow of the down	F
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Here on this beach a hundred years ago	I
Three children of three houses Annie Lee	J
The prettiest little damsel in the port	K
And Philip Ray the miller's only son	L
And Enoch Arden a rough sailor's lad	M
Made orphan by a winter shipwreck play'd	N
Among the waste and lumber of the shore	O
Hard coils of cordage swarthy fishing nets	P
Anchors of rusty fluke and boats updrawn	L
And built their castles of dissolving sand	Q
To watch them overflow'd or following up	R
And flying the white breaker daily left	S
The little footprint daily wash'd away	T
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A narrow cave ran in beneath the cliff	U
In this the children play'd at keeping house	V
Enoch was host one day Philip the next	W
While Annie still was mistress but at times	X
Enoch would hold possession for a week	Y
This is my house and this my little wife '	-
Mine too' said Philip turn and turn about '	-
When if they quarrell'd Enoch stronger made	N
Was master then would Philip his blue eyes	Z
All flooded with the helpless wrath of tears	A2
Shriek out I hate you Enoch ' and at this	B2
The little wife would weep for company	L
And pray them not to quarrel for her sake	C2
And say she would be little wife to both	D2
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But when the dawn of rosy childhood past	E2
And the new warmth of life's ascending sun	L
Was felt by either either fixt his heart	F2
On that one girl and Enoch spoke his love	G2
But Philip loved in silence and the girl	H2
Seem'd kinder unto Philip than to him	I2
But she loved Enoch tho' she knew it not	J2
And would if ask'd deny it Enoch set	K2
A purpose evermore before his eyes	Z
To hoard all savings to the uttermost	K2
To purchase his own boat and make a home	L2
For Annie and so prosper'd that at last	K2
A luckier or a bolder fisherman	L
A carefuller in peril did not breathe	M2
For leagues along that breaker beaten coast	K2
Than Enoch Likewise had he served a year	N2
On board a merchantman and made himself	O2
Full sailor and he thrice had pluck'd a life	P2
From the dread sweep of the down streaming seas	Q2
And all me look'd upon him favorably	L
And ere he touch'd his one and twentieth May	T
He purchased his own boat and made a home	L2
For Annie neat and nestlike halfway up	R
The narrow street that clamber'd toward the mill	E
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Then on a golden autumn eventide	K2
The younger people making holiday	K2
With bag and sack and basket great and small	R2
Went nutting to the hazels Philip stay'd	K2
His father lying sick and needing him	I2
An hour behind but as he climb'd the hill	E
Just where the prone edge of the wood began	L
To feather toward the hollow saw the pair	S2
Enoch and Annie sitting hand in hand	K2
His large gray eyes and weather beaten face	T2
All kindled by a still and sacred fire	D
That burn'd as on an altar Philip look'd	K2
And in their eyes and faces read his doom	U2
Then as their faces drew together groan'd	K2
And slipt aside and like a wounded life	P2
Crept down into the hollows of the wood	K2
There while the rest were loud in merrymaking	C2
Had his dark hour unseen and rose and past	K2
Bearing a lifelong hunger in his heart	K2
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So these were wed and merrily rang the bells	V2
And merrily ran the years seven happy years	W2
Seven happy years of health and competence	X2
And mutual love and honorable toil	Y2
With children first a daughter In him woke	C2
With his first babe's first cry the noble wish	Z2
To save all earnings to the uttermost	K2
And give his child a better bringing up	R
Than his had been or hers a wish renew'd	K2
When two years after came a boy to be	L
The rosy idol of her solitudes	X2
While Enoch was abroad on wrathful seas	X2
Or often journeying landward for in truth	A3
Enoch's white horse and Enoch's ocean spoil	Y2
In ocean smelling osier and his face	X2
Rough redden'd with a thousand winter gales	X2
Not only to the market cross were known	L
But in the leafy lanes behind the down	L
Far as the portal warding lion whelp	R
And peacock yewtree of the lonely Hall	R2
Whose Friday fare was Enoch's ministering	C2
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Then came a change as all things human change	B3
Ten miles to northward of the narrow port	K2
Open'd a larger haven thither used	K2
Enoch at times to go by land or sea	X2
And once when there and clambering on a mast	K2
In harbor by mischance he slipt and fell	C3
A limb was broken when they lifted him	I2
And while he lay recovering there his wife	P2
Bore him another son a sickly one	L
Another hand crept too across his trade	K2
Taking her bread and theirs and on him fell	C3
Altho' a grave and staid God fearing man	L
Yet lying thus inactive doubt and gloom	U2
He seem'd as in a nightmare of the night	K2
To see his children leading evermore	O
Low miserable lives of hand to mouth	D3
And her he loved a beggar then he pray'd	K2
Save them from this whatever comes to me '	-
And while he pray'd the master of that ship	R
Enoch had served in hearing his mischance	X2
Came for he knew the man and valued him	I2
Reporting of his vessel China bound	K2
And wanting yet a boatswain Would he go	C2
There yet were many weeks before she sail'd	K2
Sail'd from this port Would Enoch have the place	X2
And Enoch all at once assented to it	K2
Rejoicing at that answer to his prayer	S2
	-
So now that the shadow of mischance appear'd	K2
No graver than as when some little cloud	K2
Cuts off the fiery highway of the sun	L
And isles a light in the offing yet the wife	P2
When he was gone the children what to do	K2
Then Enoch lay long pondering on his plans	X2
To sell the boat and yet he loved her well	C3
How many a rough sea had he weather'd in her	D
He knew her as a horseman knows his horse	X2
And yet to sell her then with what she brought	K2
Buy goods and stores set Annie forth in trade	K2
With all that seamen needed or their wives	X2
So might she keep the house while he was gone	L
Should he not trade himself out yonder go	C2
This voyage more than once yea twice or thrice	X2
As oft as needed last returning rich	E3
Become the master of a larger craft	K2
With fuller profits lead an easier life	P2
Have all his pretty young ones educated	K2
And pass his days in peace among his own	L
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Thus Enoch in his heart determined all	R2
Then moving homeward came on Annie pale	F3
Nursing the sickly babe her latest born	L
Forward she started with a happy cry	G3
And laid the feeble infant in his arms	X2
Whom Enoch took and handled all his limbs	X2
Appraised his weight and fondled fatherlike	C2
But had no heart to break his purposes	X2
To Annie till the morrow when he spoke	C2
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Then first since Enoch's golden ring had girt	K2
Her finger Annie fought against his will	E
Yet not with brawling opposition she	X2
But manifold entreaties many a tear	S2
Many a sad kiss by day and night renew'd	K2
Sure that all evil would come out of it	K2
Besought him supplicating if he cared	K2
For here or his dear children not to go	C2
He not for his own self caring but her	D
Her and her children let her plead in vain	L
So grieving held his will and bore it thro'	D
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For Enoch parted with his old sea friend	K2
Bought Annie goods and stores and set his hand	K2
To fit their little streetward sitting room	U2
With shelf and corner for the goods and stores	X2
So all day long till Enoch's last at home	L2
Shaking their pretty cabin hammer and axe	X2
Auger and saw while Annie seem'd to hear	D
Her own death scaffold raising shrill'd and rang	C2
Till this was ended and his careful hand	K2
The space was narrow having order'd all	R2
Almost as neat and close as Nature packs	X2
Her blossom or her seedling paused and he	X2
Who needs would work for Annie to the last	K2
Ascending tired heavily slept till morn	L
	-
And Enoch faced this morning of farewell	C3
Brightly and boldly All his Annie's fears	X2
Save as his	X2

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