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Long motionless the maiden stood,
In wonder, fear, and sorrow—
A tale of wreck, a tale of wo
Was told her on the morrow!
The ship of her returning hopes
Had sunk beneath the billow—
The ocean-shell, the ocean-weed
Were now her lover's pillow!