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trewn sea! The sun may come And the moon wax round, And in its beam My mates may rejoice, But I feast not And my heart is dumb, As I long, O long, for thee! In the jungle-deeps, Where the cobra creeps, The leopard lies In wait for me, But O, my love, When the daylight dies There is more to my dread than he! Harsh lonely tears That assail my eyes Are worse to bear,-- For the misery That makes them well Is the long, long years That I moan away from thee! O again, again, In my katamaran A-keel would I push To your palmy door! Again would I hear The heave and hush Of your song by the plantain-tree. But far away Do I toil and crush The hopes that arise At my sick heart's core. For never near Does it come, the day That draws me again to thee! THE CITY Soft and fair by the Desert's edge, And on the dim blue edge of the sea, Where white gulls wing all day and fledge Their young on the high cliff's sandy ledge, There is a city I have beheld, Sometime or where, by day or dream, I know not which, for it seems enspelled As I am by its memory. Pale minarets of the Prophet pierce Above it into the white of the skies, And sails enchanted a thousand years Flit at its feet while fancy steers. No face of all its faces to me Is known--no passion of it or pain. It is but a city by the sea, Enshrined forever beyond my eyes! FULL TIDE Sea-scents, wild-rose scents, Bay and barberry too, Drench the wind, the Maine wind, That gulls are dipping thro, With soft hints, sweet hints, With lull, lure and desire; With memory-wafts and mysteries, And all the ineffable histories Made when the sea and land meet, And the sun lends nuptial fire. Sea-foam, and dream-foam, And which is which, who knows, When all day long the heart goes out To every wave that blows, That blossoms on the bright tide, Then sheds a shimmering crest And yields its tossing place to one Whose blooming is as quickly done-- For beauty is ever swift--begot Of rapture and unrest. Sea-deeps, and soul-deeps, And where shall fait
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