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SEA-SOUNDS.

THE wind stept lightly down

From his chariot in the sea;

On his face was never a frown

As he kist her tenderly

Who was dreaming her soul for ever away

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For one gone seawards at break of day.

The waves ran merrily o'er,

In a dazzling laughter of foam,

The yellow paths o' the shore,

When a little boat came home.

One sang with glee as she waited there,

And a blithe wind-welcome stirr'd her hair.

The poet lookt and saw

Thro' the blind storm-whirl, far out,

The rock, like a monster's paw,

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