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Anthology of Massachusetts Poets

THE MIRAGE

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Across the Bay are low-lying cliffs, Where stand fishermen’s cottages: I can barely distinguish them with the naked eye. But to-day the cliffs are lifted, escarpt, Perpendicular, mysterious, inaccessible, And those sordid dwellings have become The magnificent fortified castles of Sea-kings.

NATHAN HASKELL DOLE

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