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Then sang the souls of the gentlemen-adventurers—
Fettered wrist to bar all for red iniquity:

"Ho, we revel in our chains

O'er the sorrow that was Spain's;

Heave or sink it, leave or drink it, we were masters of the sea!"

Up spake the soul of a grey Gothavn 'speckshioner

(He that led the flinching in the fleets of fair Dundee)

"Oh, the ice-blink white and near,

And the bowhead breaching clear!

Will Ye whelm them all for wantonness that wallow in the sea?"

Loud sang the souls of the jolly, jolly mariners,

Crying, "Under Heaven, here is neither lead nor lee!

Must we sing forevermore"

On the windless, glassy floor?

Take back your golden fiddles and we'll beat to open sea!”

Then stooped the Lord, and He called the good sea up to Him, And 'stablished its borders unto all eternity,

That such as have no pleasure

For to praise the Lord by measure,

They may enter into galleons and serve Him on the sea.

Sun, wind, and cloud shall fail not from the face of it,
Stinging, ringing spindrift, nor the fulmar flying free;

And the ships shall go abroad

To the Glory of the Lord

Who heard the silly sailor-folks and gave them back their sea!

RECESSIONAL

(1897)

GOD of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

The tumult and the shouting dies;
The captains and the kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,

An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

Far-called, our navies melt away;

On dune and headland sinks the fire:

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday

Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget!

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,

Or lesser breeds without the Law-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word-
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!

Amen.

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And wilt thou leave me thus?

An hideous hole all vast, withouten shape,
An idle poet, here and there,

Artemidora! Gods invisible,

As after noon, one summer's day,

As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,
As it fell upon a day.

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Ask me no more where Jove bestows,

A slumber did my spirit seal; .

A stately pallace built of squared bricke,

As two whose love, first foolish, widening scope,

As under cover of departing day

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A sweet disorder in the dress

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At Beauty's bar as I did stand,

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A tear bedews my Delia's eye,

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At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,

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Avenge, O Lord! Thy slaughtered Saints, whose bones

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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
A wanderer is man from his birth.

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Bury the Great Duke

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Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre

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Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,

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Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, Cupid and my Campaspe play'd.

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