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"Rising with the hills,
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falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam,
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"borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship.
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"At last Ham neared the wreck.
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"He was so near that with one more
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of his vigorous strokes, he would be clinging to it
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"when a high, green, vast hillside of water
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"moving on shoreward from beyond the ship,
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"he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound.
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"And the ship was gone."
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Truly, Mr. Dickens, it is never
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so alive as when it is spoken by its author.