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122 The Dog, which still was hovering nigh,

Repeating the same timid cry,

This Dog had been through three months' space

A dweller in that savage place.

Yes, proof was plain that, since the day

When this ill-fated traveller died,

The Dog had watched about the spot,

Or by his master's side:

How nourished here through such long time

He knows, who gave that love sublime;

And gave that strength of feeling, great

Above all human estimate.

.

The Chambered Nautilus.

is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,

Sailed the unshadowed main,—

The venturous bark that flings

On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings

In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,

And coral reefs lie bare,

Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.