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"NAHANT, September 8, 1880, / Four o'clock in the morning."
Four by the clock! and yet not day; / But the great world rolls and wheels away, / With its cities on land, and its ships at sea, / Into the dawn that is to be!
Only the lamp in the anchored bark / Sends its glimmer across the dark, / And the heavy breathing of the sea / Is the only sound that comes to me.