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Sailing Down the Mississippi at Midnight

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Sailing down the Mississippi, of a Clo[cut away] at  
  Midnight.—

Vast black folds of a pall from skyward Vast and black starless, the pall of heaven Laps on the trailing pall below And plunging athwart the solemn ^onward, onward, amid ^in solemn darkness As if to the Sea of the Lost we go.— Now drawn nigher the ^river's rim edge of the river of the river Wierd like creatures suddenly rise [cut away]m
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