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Up from the dark the moon begins to creep and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Body
Moon
Haggard
Line
Creep
Deep
Drowned
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Creeps
Dark
Rises
Face
Lifts
Faces
Begins
Pallid
Water
Thus
Solemnly

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