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It is the sea water mingling here into the river -- / at least so it seems -- perhaps it is something else -- but what matter?
The sea water! It is quiet and smooth here!
How slowly they move, little by little trying / the hawsers that drop and groan with their agony.
Yes, it is certainly of the high sea they are talking.