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No sight to me like sight of ships	B
No wine to me like salt spray thrown	C
By morning breezes on my lips	B
No music sweeter than the moan	C
Of solemn surges landward blown	C
O world unconquered O great sea	D
Tamed by celestial winds alone	C
My spirit is at home with thee	D
Panting with thy wild waves for space and liberty	D
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The land is captive sold and bought	E
The streets are filled with traffic base	F
And I am choked with narrow thought	G
The dusty customs that disgrace	F
Mart chamber church and judgment place	F
But when upon this lonely shore	H
I hear thy voice and see thy face	F
I seem to pass a prison door	H
And breathe a free born man my native air once more	H
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The urgent tyrannies of life	I
Relax their grasp when I am here	J
I rise above the fretful strife	I
The timid doubt the trembling fear	K
The petty woes that crowd so near	K
And with brain cleansed and pulses stilled	L
Stand in the spacious atmosphere	K
My inmost being rapt and thrilled	L
With unimagined peace and wordless worship filled	L
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O mystery that no thought can reach	M
O language that no tongue can tell	N
The whispering surf upon the beach	M
The murmuring of the mid sea swell	N
The long boom like a tolling bell	N
That shakes the earth beneath my feet	O
The solitude ineffable	P
O what new strength divine and sweet	O
Breathes in the mighty gales that round these headlands beat	O
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Thou friend in those wild arms caressed	Q
My comrade that hast house and home	R
On that illimitable breast	Q
Thy spirit in the wind and foam	R
Meets mine beneath this starlit dome	R
I have no compass and no chart	S
I know not where thy bark may roam	R
I know not brother where thou art	S
But I can feel thy courage lifting up my heart	S
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The shadow of the splendid night	T
Blots out sea blue and sunset red	U
The glimmering canvas wide and white	T
By sweeping rush of trade wind spread	U
Like sea birds wings above thy head	U
Tall mast slim spar and cobweb shroud	V
And slant deck echoing to thy tread	U
The great ship stately strong and proud	V
Fades on the darkening deep like some dispersing cloud	V
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But thou art there amid the stars	W
That watch me with those steadfast eyes	X
Thy soul escaped from bolts and bars	W
Conventioned fetters and disguise	X
As open as these arching skies	X
Untrammelled as this boundless sea	D
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Calm in the awful darkness lies	X
Like babe upon its mother's knee	D
Humble but unafraid as honest soul should be	D
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Thinking of thee so small a speck	Y
Amid these myriad worlds around	Z
But king upon thy quarter deck	Y
More king than monarch throned and crowned	Z
That e'er on subject smiled or frowned	Z
Of what depends upon thy skill	A2
And thee by conscience only bound	Z
I think how nobly we may fill	A2
Our part that looks so hard and hopeless if we will	A2
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Poor puny mortals that we are	B2
Clinging to reeds and ropes of sand	C2
'Twere better done 'twere braver far	B2
Unsheltered and upright to stand	C2
The free soul at its own command	C2
In Him whate'er He be to trust	D2
Who holds us in His mighty hand	C2
And guides each star and grain of dust	D2
Or to renounce all hope and comfort if we must	D2
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When mercury sinks and winds are foul	E2
When mists are thick and skies are black	F2
And hurricanes that shriek and howl	E2
And wild seas leaping like a pack	F2
Of hungry wolves upon thy track	F2
Smother the deck with spume and spray	G2
Thou quiet in the dreadful wrack	F2
Keeping thy watch dost stand at bay	G2
Unshaken by one thought of danger or dismay	G2
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Then why in life's disastrous hours	H2
Shall we not face the storm and stress	I2
Of those dark destinies and powers	H2
Those strong fates that so hardly press	I2
Upon our lonely littleness	I2
With timbers sound and thou to guide	J2
Thy ship will live through her distress	I2
Shall we not also safely ride	J2
If hearts be stout and true whatever may betide	J2
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Or if indeed we have to meet	O
The worst that e'er stout heart befell	N
If we must suffer sore defeat	O
O'erwhelming irresistible	P
Shall we not bear that test as well	N
Shall we not die without disgrace	I2
No force of anguish can compel	N
Brave men to turn to mean and base	I2
And all that fate can bring brave men should dare to face	I2
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If suddenly some dire mischance	I2
Collision cyclone fire should mock	K2
Thy keen and sleepless vigilance	I2
If there should come unwarned the shock	K2
Of shattering hull on sunken rock	K2
If death in fog or flood or flame	L2
Upon thy cabin door should knock	K2
Thy native righteousness would shame	L2
The men who boast most loudly of the Christian name	L2
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The women first thy voice would cry	M2
Above the roar of wind and wave	N2
And thou the last would'st calmly die	M2
Intrepid resolute and brave	N2
All them that trusted thee to save	N2
If thou could'st see rewards in store	H
A martyr's crown beyond the grave	N2
If all heaven beckoned thee before	H
Or fear of hell fire drove thee thou could'st do no more	H
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Art thou in thy lone handed fight	T
That fails to serve thee but succeeds	I2
In victory for the true and right	T
Beneath the soul that only heeds	I2
The cry of its own lower needs	I2
That shelters trembling from the fray	G2
In privilege of pleasant creeds	I2
That are but systems of a day	G2
From age to age new made outworn and cast away	G2
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Are we not strong enough to take	O2
The course by conscience marked so plain	P2
Faithful till death for manhood's sake	O2
Unspurred by coward fear of pain	P2
Unbribed by hope of selfish gain	P2
Must soaring progress sink and fall	Q2
And is all history writ in vain	P2
Is life a thing so poor and small	Q2
And is the great design a muddle after all	Q2
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Standing in this tremendous space	I2
Of starlit sky and whispering sea	I2
With my great Maker face to face	I2
His countless worlds surrounding me	I2
Eternity Infinity	I2
Humble but confident I dare	R2
To let these bitter questions be	I2
We too are creatures of His care	R2
The voice that called us forth forbids us to despair	R2