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^ Night on the Shore<br />

Starless and cold is the night.<br />

The sea yawns;<br />

An^ outstretched flat on his paunch, over the sea.<br />

Lies the uncouth North-wind.<br />

Secredy with a groaning, stifled voice,<br />

Like a peevish, crabbed man in a freak of good humor.<br />

He babbles to the ocean.<br />

And recounts many a mad tale.<br />

Stories of murderous giants.<br />

Quaint old Norwegian Sagas,<br />

And from time to time, with re-echoing laughter.<br />

He howls forth<br />

The conjuration-songs of the Edda,<br />

With Runic proverbs<br />

So mysteriously arrogant, so magically powerful.<br />

That the white children of the sea<br />

High in the air upspring and rejoice.<br />

Intoxicated with insolence.<br />

Meanwhile on the level beach.<br />

Over the wave-wetted sand.<br />

Strides a stranger whose heart<br />

Is still wilder than wind or wave.<br />

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