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Neptune’s Choir

There were hundreds of people singing there,

Voices at the shore.

Then the waves came crashing down

So many songsters drowned,

While seagulls lamented overhead,

Articulating above the water’s flow and ebb,

With shrill voices,

The fearful nature of grief.