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Excerpt from The Ice-Bound Ship, And, the Dream
But soon we left behind those isles, Where balmy summer ceaseless smiles Those gentle waves whose sapphire wreath Shines o'er the coral's red beneath, And where the breeze at evening roves, And wantons o'er their placid face, Fraught with the fragrance of the groves, Of scented trees those Isles that grace, And sailed by more than one dark coast, Bleak, rugged, wild and tempest tossed Where, beating 'on the treacherous shore, The waves resound with dismal roar: Their dreadful hoarseness tear would stir In breast of boldest mariner And gladly he his bark would turn From such inhospitable bourne.
We tacked and sailed day after day, From cost or land-mark far away; We'd left the last of human kind.
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