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THE TORCH.

ON my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's          group stands watching,

Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing          salmon,

The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,

Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.

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