Personal Names,

There was a great swell in Japan,
Whose name on a Tuesday began;
    It lasted through Sunday
    Till twilight on Monday,
And sounded like stones in a can.

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Nursery Rhyme. XL. Literal

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXIV. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXX. Paradoxes.

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Silhouette of the capitol in darkness.
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A fierce north-easter breaks,
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Our names upon a stone.

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When thoughts were strung too thick to speak,
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The curving surf-lines lightly drawn,
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We saw the white spray tossed and spurned;
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