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Call it misfortune, crime, or what / You will -- his presence was a blot / Where all was bright and fair -- / A blot that told its darksome tale / And left its mark a blighting trail / Behind him everywhere.
He stood by the Atlantic's shore, / And crossed the azure main, / And even the sea, so blue before, / About his wake grew dark and bore / The semblance of a stain.