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As when a crowd of pale men gather round,

Watching an eddy in the leaden deep,

From which they deem the body of one drowned

Will be cast forth, from face to face doth creep

An eager dread that holds all tongues fast bound

Until the horror, with a ghastly leap, 550

Starts up, its dead blue arms stretched aimlessly,

Heaved with the swinging of the careless sea—