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From Bermuda's reefs; from edg Of sunken ledges,

In some far-off, bright Azore;

From Bahama, and the dashing,

Silver-flashing

Surges of San Salvador;

From the tumbling surf, that burie The Orkneyan skerries,

Answering the hoarse Hebrides; And from wrecks of ships, and dri

Spars, uplifting

On the desolate, rainy seas ;

Ever drifting, drifting, drifting

On the shifting

Currents of the restless main;

Till in sheltered coves, and reaches

Of sandy beaches,

All have found repose again.

So when storms of wild emotion

Strike the ocean

Of the poet's soul, ere long

From each cave and rocky fastness,

In its vastness,

Floats some fragment of a song:

From the far-off isles enchanted,

Heaven has planted

With the golden fruit of Truth;

From the flashing surf, whose vision

Gleams Elysian

In the tropic clime of Youth;

From the strong Will, and the Endeavour

That forever

Wrestles with the tides of Fate;

From the wreck of Hopes far-scattered,

Tempest-shattered,

Floating waste and desolate ;

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Ever drifting, drifting, drifting
On the shifting

Currents of the restless heart;

Till at length in books recorded,

They, like hoarded

Household words, no more depar

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THE DAY IS DONE.

THE day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.

I see the lights of the village

Gleam through the rain and the mist,

And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me,

That my soul cannot resist :

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A feeling of sadness and longir
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only

As the mist resembles the ra

Come, read to me some poem,

Some simple and heartfelt lay That shall soothe this restless fe And banish the thoughts of da

Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time

For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour;

And to-night I long for rest.

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