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FROM MONTAUK POINT.
 
| I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak, |  
| Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,) |  
| The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance, |  
| The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge and urge of waves,
 
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