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  [begin leaf 1 recto] last 2 11

At the Mouth of the River

Last of the the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward making—smells  
 of the salt and sedge incoming,
While many the a half‑caught voice sound comes up from  
  those frantic the whirls and eddies,
Many the a muffled confession, many a the a sob  
 and whispering word,
As of speakers voices speakers far or hid.
  [begin leaf 1 verso]   [begin leaf 2 recto] 12 How they sweep down and out! how  
 they mutter!
Hopes Pride of youth manhood——tones of the dying—  
  athe chorus of age's complaints—feverish  
 love,—the last, —hope's last bitter words,
Haply the The heHeroes unknown, unnamed, borne down off—the poets  
 and artists unknown, yet  
 greater than any, known
Some suicide's despair's beguiling words, cry, and wish, 
  Away Away tTo the boundless waste, and to and  
  never again return.ing.
  [begin leaf 2 verso]   [begin leaf 3 recto] 13 2 So ^Hold ye so many burnt-out lives, O ye drowning tide and waning fading light!? Such ventures, —such aspirations lost? such failures? On # (On!! on to oblivion,, # then! ^ye ventures aspirations lost aspirations On, more quickly quicker  
  on quicker yet yet, ye sweltering, whirling, shrouding  
  waters!) ebb!) waters!)
On to oblivion then! ^on quicker, quicker yet on, quicker yet, on ye sweltering shrouding watersr ^ (On for your time ye furious debouché! On, quicker yet
  [begin leaf 3 verso]
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