<h3><SPAN name="Man_and_the_Sea" id="Man_and_the_Sea"></SPAN>Man and the Sea</h3>
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Free man! the sea is to thee ever dear!<br/>
The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul<br/>
In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll,<br/>
And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear.<br/>
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Thou delight'st to plunge deep in thine image down;<br/>
Thou tak'st it with eyes and with arms in embrace,<br/>
And at times thine own inward voice would'st efface<br/>
With the sound of its savage ungovernable moan.<br/>
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You are both of you, sombre, secretive and deep:<br/>
Oh mortal, thy depths are foraye unexplored,<br/>
Oh sea—no one knoweth thy dazzling hoard,<br/>
You both are so jealous your secrets to keep!<br/>
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And endless ages have wandered by,<br/>
Yet still without pity or mercy you fight,<br/>
So mighty in plunder and death your delight:<br/>
Oh wrestlers! so constant in enmity!<br/></p>
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