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Oceanward I am ever yearning	A
Where far it rolls in its calm and grandeur	B
The weight of mountain like fogbanks bearing	A
Forever wandering and returning	A
The skies may lower the land may call it	C
It knows no resting and knows no yielding	A
In nights of summer in storms of winter	D
Its surges murmur the self same longing	A
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Yes oceanward I am ever yearning	A
Where far is lifted its broad cold forehead	E
Thereon the world throws its deepest shadow	F
And mirrors whispering all its anguish	G
Though warm and blithesome the bright sun stroke it	C
With joyous message that life is gladness	H
Yet ice cold changelessly melancholy	I
It drowns the sorrow and drowns the solace	H
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The full moon pulling the tempest lifting	A
Must loose their hold on the flowing water	D
Down whirling lowlands and crumbling mountains	H
It to eternity tireless washes	H
What forth it draws must the one way wander	D
What once is sunken arises never	D
No message comes thence no cry is heard thence	H
Its voice its silence can none interpret	J
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Yes toward the ocean far out toward ocean	K
That knows no hour of self atonement	L
For all that suffer release it offers	H
But trails forever its own enigma	M
A strange alliance with Death unites it	C
That all it give Him itself excepting	A
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I feel vast Ocean thy solemn sadness	H
To thee abandon my weak devices	H
To thee let fly all my anxious longings	H
May thy cool breath to my heart bring healing	A
Let Death now follow his booty seeking	A
The moves are many before the checkmate	N
Awhile I'll harass thy love of plunder	D
As on I scud 'neath thy angry eyebrows	H
Thou only fillest my swelling mainsail	I
Though Death ride fast on thy howling tempest	O
Thy billows raging shall bear the faster	D
My little vessel to quiet waters	H
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Ah Thus alone at the helm in darkness	H
By all forsaken by Death forgotten	K
When sails unknown far away are wafted	P
And some swift coursing by night are passing	A
To note the ground swell's resistless current	L
The sighing heart of the breathing ocean	K
Or small waves plashing along the planking	A
Its quiet pastime amid its sadness	H
Then glide my lingering longings over	D
Into the ocean deep grief of nature	D
The night's the water's united coldness	H
Prepares my spirit for death's dark dwelling	A
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Then comes day's dawning My soul bounds upward	Q
On beams of light to the vault of heaven	K
My ship steed sniffing its flank is laving	A
With buoyant zest in the cooling billow	I
With song the sailor to masthead clambers	H
To clear the sail that shall swell more freely	I
And thoughts are flying like birds aweary	D
Round mast and yard arm but find no refuge	R
Yes toward the ocean To follow Vikar	D
To sail like him and to sink as he did	P
For great King Olaf the prow defending	A
With keel unswerving the cold thought cleaving	A
But hope deriving from lightest breezes	H
Death's eager fingers so near the rudder	D
While heaven's clearness the way illumines	H
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And then at last in the final hour	D
To feel the bolts and the nails are yielding	A
And Death is pressing the seams asunder	D
That in may stream the absolving water	D
Wet winding sheets shall be folded round me	I
And I descend to eternal silence	H
While rolling billows my name bear shoreward	Q
In spacious nights 'neath the cloudless moonlight	S

Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson

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