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BY THE NORTH SEA.

III.


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Miles, and miles, and miles of desolation!

Leagues on leagues on leagues without a change!
Sign or token of some eldest nation
Here would make the strange land not so strange.
Time-forgotten, yea since time's creation,
Seem these borders where the sea-birds range.

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