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trees, dense underbrush, and that melancholy array 

 of dead summer fruit, blighted leaves, grass, and 

 seed-pods stranded upon the beach. History has it 



that the Dutch called more than one lonely reach 

 of river shore Verdietige-hoeck, Doleful Corner. 

 To-day, at least, this was such a one ; veritable 

 waste-land and wasting land, too, for the tide is 



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