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Leagues north as fly the gull and auk	A
Point Judith watches with eye of hawk	A
Leagues south thy beacon flames Montauk	A
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Lonely and wind shorn wood forsaken	B
With never a tree for Spring to waken	B
For tryst of lovers or farewells taken	B
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Circled by waters that never freeze	C
Beaten by billow and swept by breeze	C
Lieth the island of Manisees	C
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Set at the mouth of the Sound to hold	D
The coast lights up on its turret old	D
Yellow with moss and sea fog mould	D
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Dreary the land when gust and sleet	E
At its doors and windows howl and beat	E
And Winter laughs at its fires of peat	E
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But in summer time when pool and pond	F
Held in the laps of valleys fond	F
Are blue as the glimpses of sea beyond	F
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When the hills are sweet with the brier rose	C
And hid in the warm soft dells unclose	C
Flowers the mainland rarely knows	C
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When boats to their morning fishing go	A
And held to the wind and slanting low	A
Whitening and darkening the small sails show	A
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Then is that lonely island fair	G
And the pale health seeker findeth there	G
The wine of life in its pleasant air	G
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No greener valleys the sun invite	H
On smoother beaches no sea birds light	H
No blue waves shatter to foam more white	H
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There circling ever their narrow range	I
Quaint tradition and legend strange	I
Live on unchallenged and know no change	I
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Old wives spinning their webs of tow	A
Or rocking weirdly to and fro	A
In and out of the peat's dull glow	A
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And old men mending their nets of twine	J
Talk together of dream and sign	J
Talk of the lost ship Palatine	J
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The ship that a hundred years before	K
Freighted deep with its goodly store	K
In the gales of the equinox went ashore	K
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The eager islanders one by one	B
Counted the shots of her signal gun	B
And heard the crash when she drove right on	L
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Into the teeth of death she sped	M
May God forgive the hands that fed	M
The false lights over the rocky Head	M
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O men and brothers what sights were there	G
White upturned faces hands stretched in prayer	G
Where waves had pity could ye not spare	G
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Down swooped the wreckers like birds of prey	N
Tearing the heart of the ship away	N
And the dead had never a word to say	N
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And then with ghastly shimmer and shine	J
Over the rocks and the seething brine	J
They burned the wreck of the Palatine	J
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In their cruel hearts as they homeward sped	M
'The sea and the rocks are dumb ' they said	M
'There 'll be no reckoning with the dead '	-
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But the year went round and when once more	K
Along their foam white curves of shore	K
They heard the line storm rave and roar	K
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Behold again with shimmer and shine	J
Over the rocks and the seething brine	J
The flaming wreck of the Palatine	J
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So haply in fitter words than these	C
Mending their nets on their patient knees	C
They tell the legend of Manisees	C
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Nor looks nor tones a doubt betray	N
'It is known to us all ' they quietly say	N
'We too have seen it in our day '	-
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Is there then no death for a word once spoken	B
Was never a deed but left its token	B
Written on tables never broken	B
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Do the elements subtle reflections give	O
Do pictures of all the ages live	P
On Nature's infinite negative	O
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Which half in sport in malice half	Q
She shows at times with shudder or laugh	Q
Phantom and shadow in photograph	Q
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For still on many a moonless night	H
From Kingston Head and from Montauk light	H
The spectre kindles and burns in sight	H
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Now low and dim now clear and higher	R
Leaps up the terrible Ghost of Fire	R
Then slowly sinking the flames expire	S
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And the wise Sound skippers though skies be fine	J
Reef their sails when they see the sign	J
Of the blazing wreck of the Palatine	J
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'A fitter tale to scream than sing '	-
The Book man said 'Well fancy then '	-
The Reader answered 'on the wing	A
The sea birds shriek it not for men	T
But in the ear of wave and breeze '	-
The Traveller mused 'Your Manisees	N
Is fairy land off Narragansett shore	K
Who ever saw the isle or heard its name before	K
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''T is some strange land of Flyaway	N
Whose dreamy shore the ship beguiles	N
St Brandan's in its sea mist gray	N
Or sunset loom of Fortunate Isles '	-
'No ghost but solid turf and rock	A
Is the good island known as Block '	-
The Reader said 'For beauty and for ease	N
I chose its Indian name soft flowing Manisees	N
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'But let it pass here is a bit	U
Of unrhymed story with a hint	V
Of the old preaching mood in it	U
The sort of sidelong moral squint	V
Our friend objects to which has grown	W
I fear a habit of my own	W
'Twas written when the Asian plague drew near	X
And the land held its breath and paled with sudden fear '	-

John Greenleaf Whittier

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