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BY THE NORTH SEA.

VI.


i.

Death, and change, and darkness everlasting,

Deaf, that hears not what the daystar saith,
Blind, past all remembrance and forecasting,
Dead, past memory that it once drew breath;
These, above the washing tides and wasting,
Reign, and rule this land of utter death.