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BY THE NORTH SEA.

12.

Now displaced, devoured and desecrated,

⁠Now by Time's hands darkly disinterred,
These poor dead that sleeping here awaited
⁠Long the archangel's re-creating word,
Closed about with roofs and walls high-gated
⁠Till the blast of judgment should be heard,

13.

Naked, shamed, cast out of consecration,

⁠Corpse and coffin, yea the very graves,
Scoffed at, scattered, shaken from their station,
⁠Spurned and scourged of wind and sea like slaves,
Desolate beyond man's desolation,
⁠Shrink and sink into the waste of waves.

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