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2 Last of the ebb, and daylight
waning

Last of _^ of the poured-out ebb, and daylight waning,

sScented sea‑breaths landward shoreward making—
smells of sedge and salt incoming,

With many a half‑caught voice sent
up from by from the whirls and eddies,

Many a muffled confession—many a
sob and whisper'd word,

As fFrom As of speakars far or hid.

How they sweep down and out! how they mutter!

Heroes Poets unnamed _^ and lost designs— —poets and artists greatest of any with all their lost designs,
—pride of

Pride of manhood—tones of the dying

Tones of the dying— Love unreturned—a chorus of age's complaints—
—love unreturn'd tones of the dying— —hope's last words,

Some suicide's despair'sing beguiling cry, Away
to the boundless waste, and never
again return.

On to oblivion! then! on—quicker, quicker yet!
on—on, and do your part, ye [illegible] shrouding _^burying waters!

On, for your time, ye furious debouché!