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THE TUFT OF KELP by HERMAN MELVILLE

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First Line: ALL DRIPPING IN TANGLES GREEN
Last Line: BITTERER, TOO, ARE YE?
Subject(s): SEAWEED;
All dripping in tangles green
Cast up by a lonely sea,
If purer for that, O Weed,
Bitterer, too, are ye?




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