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'Twas off the Wash the sun went down the sea look'd black and grim	A
For stormy clouds with murky fleece were mustering at the brim	A
Titanic shades enormous gloom as if the solid night	B
Of Erebus rose suddenly to seize upon the light	B
It was a time for mariners to bear a wary eye	C
With such a dark conspiracy between the sea and sky	C
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Down went my helm close reef'd the tack held freely in my hand	D
With ballast snug I put about and scudded for the land	D
Loud hiss'd the sea beneath her lee my little boat flew fast	E
But faster still the rushing storm came borne upon the blast	E
Lord what a roaring hurricane beset the straining sail	F
What furious sleet with level drift and fierce assaults of hail	F
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What darksome caverns yawn'd before what jagged steeps behind	G
Like battle steeds with foamy manes wild tossing in the wind	G
Each after each sank down astern exhausted in the chase	H
But where it sank another rose and galloped in its place	H
As black as night they turned to white and cast against the cloud	I
A snowy sheet as if each surge upturned a sailor's shroud	I
Still flew my boat alas alas her course was nearly run	J
Behold yon fatal billow rise ten billows heap'd in one	J
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With fearful speed the dreary mass came rolling rolling fast	E
As if the scooping sea contain'd one only wave at last	E
Still on it came with horrid roar a swift pursuing grave	K
It seem'd as though some cloud had turned its hugeness to a wave	K
Its briny sleet began to beat beforehand in my face	H
I felt the rearward keel begin to climb its swelling base	H
I saw its alpine hoary head impending over mine	L
Another pulse and down it rush'd an avalanche of brine	L
Brief pause had I on God to cry or think of wife and home	M
The waters clos'd and when I shriek'd I shriek'd below the foam	M
Beyond that rush I have no hint of any after deed	N
For I was tossing on the waste as senseless as a weed	N
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Where am I in the breathing world or in the world of death	O
With sharp and sudden pang I drew another birth of breath	O
My eyes drank in a doubtful light my ears a doubtful sound	P
And was that ship a real ship whose tackle seem'd around	P
A moon as if the earthly moon was shining up aloft	Q
But were those beams the very beams that I had seen so oft	Q
A face that mock'd the human face before me watch'd alone	R
But were those eyes the eyes of man that look'd against my own	R
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Oh never may the moon again disclose me such a sight	B
As met my gaze when first I look'd on that accursed night	B
I've seen a thousand horrid shapes begot of fierce extremes	S
Of fever and most frightful things have haunted in my dreams	S
Hyenas cats blood loving bats and apes with hateful stare	T
Pernicious snakes and shaggy bulls the lion and she bear	T
Strong enemies with Judas looks of treachery and spite	B
Detested features hardly dimm'd and banish'd by the light	B
Pale sheeted ghosts with gory locks upstarting from their tombs	U
All phantasies and images that flit in midnight glooms	U
Hags goblins demons lemures have made me all aghast	E
But nothing like that GRIMLY ONE who stood beside the mast	E
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His cheek was black his brow was black his eyes and hair as dark	V
His hand was black and where it touch'd it left a sable mark	V
His throat was black his vest the same and when I look'd beneath	W
His breast was black all all was black except his grinning teeth	W
His sooty crew were like in hue as black as Afric slaves	U
Oh horror e'en the ship was black that plough'd the inky waves	U
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Alas I cried for love of truth and blessed mercy's sake	X
Where am I in what dreadful ship upon what dreadful lake	X
What shape is that so very grim and black as any coal	Y
It is Mahound the Evil One and he has gain'd my soul	Y
Oh mother dear my tender nurse dear meadows that beguil'd	Z
My happy days when I was yet a little sinless child	Z
My mother dear my native fields I never more shall see	U
I'm sailing in the Devil's Ship upon the Devil's Sea	U
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Loud laugh'd that SABLE MARINER and loudly in return	A2
His sooty crew sent forth a laugh that rang from stem to stern	A2
A dozen pair of grimly cheeks were crumpled on the nonce	U
As many sets of grinning teeth came shining out at once	U
A dozen gloomy shapes at once enjoy'd the merry fit	B2
With shriek and yell and oaths as well like Demons of the Pit	B2
They crow'd their fill and then the Chief made answer for the whole	Y
Our skins said he are black ye see because we carry coal	Y
You'll find your mother sure enough and see your native fields	U
For this here ship has pick'd you up the Mary Ann of Shields	U

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