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My ship threw me in the water threw me roughly in the water as though saying "do not follow as I sink into the sea!" Left me on the seas crests lurching in the night it left me searching for the hole within the darkness that would take me from the sea Then the sea itself evicted. threw me out upon the seashore threw me through the hole I'd searched for through the night while in the sea. Once upon the shore I stood there listening vaguely to the thunder to the thunder of the seashore and it seemed to say to me. Venture not into the water Neptune's beasts lurk in the water lurk there waiting for your footstep as you step into the sea many days now since my landing hunger brought an understanding dimmed the terror of the thunder and I took food in from the sea. No longer fearful of the pounding I find the water warm and shining friendly waves that make small ripples as they swirl about my knees. Waves that carry dainty fishes past the sand and coral niches bring to me the shells and fishes that I take in from the sea. Now the ship that found my seashore takes me back across the water a fond goodbye to my small island and the father of the sea Neptune, still the jealous father still stands guard within the water for his places that I trespassed haven't left a sign of me. He filled the places that I swam in moved the sands that I did stand in and the beach where rescue landed shows no sign of them or me. Neptune's liquid fingers cleansed it grasped our markings on the seashore pulled them with the jealous water back into the foaming sea
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