St Nicholas [serial] . Beyond the guarded mountain gates The hills retreated far,And softly crept the stealthy tides Past cape and sandy hundred miles they sailed and sailed, And half a hundred more,Before the shallows barred their way Along the winding shore. Down from the hills the river came, Fraught with strange mysteries,To seek the purple flood below And mingle with the not the sweep of waters deep! No more the sea-wide zone!The lure that led them on and on, In mockery had flown ! tit-- ?, ????>&.?^;... ;,?«»?>.

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