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I. QUEER are the ways of a man I know: / He comes and stands / In a careworn craze, / And looks at the sands / And the seaward haze, / With moveless hands / And face and gaze, / Then turns to go. / And what does he see when he gazes so?
II. They say he sees as an instant thing / More clear than to-day, / A sweet soft scene / That once was in play / By that briny green; / Yes, notes alway / Warm, real, and keen, / What his back years bring- / A phantom of his own figuring.