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They sit and smoke on the esplanade, The man and his friend, and regard the bay Where the far chalk cliffs, to the left displayed, Smile sallowly in the decline of day.

From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Hardy, Thomas