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Forth from Calais at dawn of night when sunset summer on autumn shone	A
Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence only the sun was gone	B
Soft and sweet as the sky they smiled and bade man welcome a dim sweet hour	C
Gleamed and whispered in wind and sea and heaven was fair as a field in flower	C
Stars fulfilled the desire of the darkling world as with music the star bright air	D
Made the face of the sea if aught may make the face of the sea more fair	D
Whence came change Was the sweet night weary of rest What anguish awoke in the dark	E
Sudden sublime the strong storm spake we heard the thunders as hounds that bark	E
Lovelier if aught may be lovelier than stars we saw the lightnings exalt the sky	F
Living and lustrous and rapturous as love that is born but to quicken and lighten and die	F
Heaven's own heart at its highest of delight found utterance in music and semblance in fire	C
Thunder on thunder exulted rejoicing to live and to satiate the night's desire	C
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And the night was alive and anhungered of life as a tiger from toils cast free	G
And a rapture of rage made joyous the spirit and strength of the soul of the sea	G
All the weight of the wind bore down on it freighted with death for fraught	H
And the keen waves kindled and quickened as things transfigured or things distraught	H
And madness fell on them laughing and leaping and madness came on the wind	I
And the might and the light and the darkness of storm were as storm in the heart of Ind	I
Such glory such terror such passion as lighten and harrow the far fierce East	I
Rang shone spake shuddered around us the night was an altar with death for priest	I
The channel that sunders England from shores where never was man born free	G
Was clothed with the likeness and thrilled with the strength and the wrath of a tropic sea	G
As a wild steed ramps in rebellion and rears till it swerves from a backward fall	J
The strong ship struggled and reared and her deck was upright as a sheer cliff's wall	J
Stern and prow plunged under alternate a glimpse a recoil a breath	K
And she sprang as the life in a god made man would spring at the throat of death	K
Three glad hours and it seemed not an hour of supreme and supernal joy	L
Filled full with delight that revives in remembrance a sea bird's heart in a boy	L
For the central crest of the night was cloud that thundered and flamed sublime	M
As the splendour and song of the soul everlasting that quickens the pulse of time	M
The glory beholden of man in a vision the music of light overheard	I
The rapture and radiance of battle the life that abides in the fire of a word	I
In the midmost heaven enkindled was manifest far on the face of the sea	G
And the rage in the roar of the voice of the waters was heard but when heaven breathed free	G
Far eastward clear of the covering of cloud the sky laughed out into light	I
From the rims of the storm to the sea's dark edge with flames that were flowerlike and white	I
The leaping and luminous blossoms of live sheet lightning that laugh as they fade	I
From the cloud's black base to the black wave's brim rejoiced in the light they made	I
Far westward throned in a silent sky where life was in lustrous tune	N
Shone sweeter and surer than morning or evening the steadfast smile of the moon	N
The limitless heaven that enshrined them was lovelier than dreams may behold and deep	O
As life or as death revealed and transfigured may shine on the soul through sleep	O
All glories of toil and of triumph and passion and pride that it yearns to know	P
Bore witness there to the soul of its likeness and kinship above and below	P
The joys of the lightnings the songs of the thunders the strong sea's labour and rage	Q
Were tokens and signs of the war that is life and is joy for the soul to wage	Q
No thought strikes deeper or higher than the heights and the depths that the night made bare	D
Illimitable infinite awful and joyful alive in the summit of air	D
Air stilled and thrilled by the tempest that thundered between its reign and the sea's	R
Rebellious rapturous and transient as faith or as terror that bows men's knees	R
No love sees loftier and fairer the form of its godlike vision in dreams	S
Than the world shone then when the sky and the sea were as love for a breath's length seems	S
One utterly mingled and mastering and mastered and laughing with love that subsides	T
As the glad mad night sank panting and satiate with storm and released the tides	T
In the dense mid channel the steam souled ship hung hovering assailed and withheld	I
As a soul born royal if life or if death be against it is thwarted and quelled	I
As the glories of myriads of glowworms in lustrous grass on a boundless lawn	B
Were the glories of flames phosphoric that made of the water a light like dawn	B
A thousand Phosphors a thousand Hespers awoke in the churning sea	G
And the swift soft hiss of them living and dying was clear as a tune could be	G
As a tune that is played by the fingers of death on the keys of life or of sleep	O
Audible alway alive in the storm too fleet for a dream to keep	O
Too fleet too sweet for a dream to recover and thought to remember awake	U
Light subtler and swifter than lightning that whispers and laughs in the live storm's wake	U
In the wild bright wake of the storm in the dense loud heart of the labouring hour	C
A harvest of stars by the storm's hand reaped each fair as a star shaped flower	C
And sudden and soft as the passing of sleep is the passing of tempest seemed	I
When the light and the sound of it sank and the glory was gone as a dream half dreamed	I
The glory the terror the passion that made of the midnight a miracle died	I
Not slain at a stroke nor in gradual reluctance abated of power and of pride	I
With strong swift subsidence awful as power that is wearied of power upon earth	V
As a God that were wearied of power upon heaven and were fain of a new God's birth	V
The might of the night subsided the tyranny kindled in darkness fell	W
And the sea and the sky put off them the rapture and radiance of heaven and of hell	W
The waters heaving and hungering at heart made way and were wellnigh fain	X
For the ship that had fought them and wrestled and revelled in labour to cease from her pain	X
And an end was made of it only remembrance endures of the glad loud strife	Y
And the sense that a rapture so royal may come not again in the passage of life	Y

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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