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I saw you standing where the water breaks, A fragile vessel that the ocean takes. You heard the whispers that the young ignore, The siren shadows of the basalt shore. I know the math of those malignant skies, I saw the cosmic fever in your eyes. The waking world had lost its mortal screen; You wandered down, pulled by something unseen. But I am old, and I have learned to stand With heavy boots upon the solid land. I hear the slithering horrors in the deep, Yet tend the fading fire, and let us all sleep...

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