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DROWNED.

Pilgrim, saint, and kingly sailor, -

All are brave who sleepeth here.

Oft some wanderer at the sunrise

Sees the deep fog roll away,

And a vision of this princess

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Shrouded in the sparkling spray.

Long he watches, lost in rapture,

But she fadeth from his gaze;

Half believing, still he lingers,

Dreaming of the olden days.

But the sun, the great archbishop,

Casts a halo round the graves

Where the noble hearts are sleeping

In their kingdom of the waves.

C.

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