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Bordered by cities, and hoarse / With a thousand cries, is its stream. / And we on its breast, our minds / Are confused as the cries which we hear, / Changing and shot as the sights that we see. / -- MATTHEW ARNOLD.
The dawn was misty gray and the cold piercing when Doggett awoke his second-in-command. The barge flotilla was just passing under Hammersmith Bridge.