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It rained; his horse went heavily; he looked up at the black mouths of the caves, and he envied the dead that slept there and were done with trouble.

. . . the lives of so many men, precious surely to others, dear, at least as heaven to themselves, had all, in that one moment, gone down into the surging waters.

. . . the sea's like the land, but fearsomer.

Years passed over his head in that isolation, and brought neither help nor contentment.

The rain still poured as though the deluge were returning, and it was no easy matter to make a light in such a world of wet and darkness.