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 The Fog

THE fog slunk down from Labrador, stealthy, sure, and slow,

Southwardly shifting, far inshore, so never a man might know

How the sea it trod with feet soft-shod, watching the dis- tance dim,

Where the fishing-fleet to the eastward beat, white dots on the ocean's rim.

Feeling the sands with its furtive hands, fingering cape and cove,

Where the sweet salt smells of the nearer swells up the sloping hillside rove ;

Where the whimpering sea-gulls swoop and soar, and the great king-herons go,

The fog slunk down from Labrador, stealthy, sure, and

slow!

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