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The mighty river flowing dark and deep, With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides Vague-sounding through the City's sleepless sleep, Is named the River of the Suicides; For night by night some lorn wretch overweary, And shuddering from the future yet more dreary, Within its cold secure oblivion hides.
One plunges from a bridge's parapet, As if by some blind and sudden frenzy hurled; Another wades in slow with purpose set Until the waters are above him furled; Another in a boat with dreamlike motion Glides drifting down into the desert ocean, To starve or sink from out the desert world.