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    "text": "Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running,",
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    "text": "Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,",
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    "text": "Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,",
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    "text": "On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,",
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    "text": "Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,",
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    "text": "Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,",
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    "text": "(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)",
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    "text": "Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,",
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    "text": "Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,",
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    "text": "Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,",
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    "text": "A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,",
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    "text": "That savage trinity warily watching.",
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