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See you the towers that gray and old	A
Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold	A
Steep sternly fronting steep	B
The Hellespont beneath them swells	C
And roaring cleaves the Dardanelles	C
The rock gates of the deep	B
Hear you the sea whose stormy wave	D
From Asia Europe clove in thunder	E
That sea which rent a world cannot	F
Rend love from love asunder	E
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In Hero's in Leander's heart	G
Thrills the sweet anguish of the dart	G
Whose feather flies from love	H
All Hebe's bloom in Hero's cheek	I
And his the hunter's steps that seek	I
Delight the hills above	H
Between their sires the rival feud	J
Forbids their plighted hearts to meet	K
Love's fruits hang over danger's gulf	L
By danger made more sweet	K
	-
Alone on Sestos' rocky tower	E
Where upward sent in stormy shower	E
The whirling waters foam	M
Alone the maiden sits and eyes	C
The cliffs of fair Abydos rise	C
Afar her lover's home	M
Oh safely thrown from strand to strand	N
No bridge can love to love convey	O
No boatman shoots from yonder shore	P
Yet Love has found the way	O
	-
That love which could the labyrinth pierce	C
Which nerves the weak and curbs the fierce	C
And wings with wit the dull	Q
That love which o'er the furrowed land	N
Bowed tame beneath young Jason's hand	N
The fiery snorting bull	R
Yes Styx itself that ninefold flows	C
Has love the fearless ventured o'er	E
And back to daylight borne the bride	S
From Pluto's dreary shore	P
	-
What marvel then that wind and wave	D
Leander doth but burn to brave	D
When love that goads him guides	C
Still when the day with fainter glimmer	E
Wanes pale he leaps the daring swimmer	E
Amid the darkening tides	C
With lusty arms he cleaves the waves	C
And strikes for that dear strand afar	T
Where high from Hero's lonely tower	E
Lone streams the beacon star	T
	-
In vain his blood the wave may chill	U
These tender arms can warm it still	U
And weary if the way	O
By many a sweet embrace above	H
All earthly boons can liberal love	H
The lover's toil repay	O
Until Aurora breaks the dream	V
And warns the loiterer to depart	G
Back to the ocean's icy bed	W
Scared from that loving heart	G
	-
So thirty suns have sped their flight	X
Still in that theft of sweet delight	X
Exult the happy pair	Y
Caress will never pall caress	C
And joys that gods might envy bless	C
The single bride night there	Y
Ah never he has rapture known	Z
Who has not where the waves are driven	A2
Upon the fearful shores of hell	B2
Plucked fruits that taste of heaven	A2
	-
Now changing in their season are	T
The morning and the Hesper star	T
Nor see those happy eyes	C
The leaves that withering droop and fall	C2
Nor hear when from its northern hall	C2
The neighboring winter sighs	C
Or if they see the shortening days	C
But seem to them to close in kindness	C
For longer joys in lengthening nights	C
They thank the heaven in blindness	C
	-
It is the time when night and day	O
In equal scales contend for sway	O
Lone on her rocky steep	B
Lingers the girl with wistful eyes	C
That watch the sun steeds down the skies	C
Careering towards the deep	B
Lulled lay the smooth and silent sea	C
A mirror in translucent calm	D2
The breeze along that crystal realm	E2
Unmurmuring died in balm	D2
	-
In wanton swarms and blithe array	O
The merry dolphins glide and play	O
Amid the silver waves	C
In gray and dusky troops are seen	F2
The hosts that serve the ocean queen	F2
Upborne from coral caves	C
They only they have witnessed love	H
To rapture steal its secret way	O
And Hecate seals the only lips	C
That could the tale betray	O
	-
She marks in joy the lulled water	E
And Sestos thus thy tender daughter	E
Soft flattering woos the sea	C
Fair god and canst thou then betray	O
No falsehood dwells with them that say	O
That falsehood dwells with thee	C
Ah faithless is the race of man	G2
And harsh a father's heart can prove	H2
But thee the gentle and the mild	I2
The grief of love can move	H2
	-
Within these hated walls of stone	Z
Should I repining mourn alone	Z
And fade in ceaseless care	Y
But thou though o'er thy giant tide	S
Nor bridge may span nor boat may glide	S
Dost safe my lover bear	Y
And darksome is thy solemn deep	B
And fearful is thy roaring wave	D
But wave and deep are won by love	H
Thou smilest on the brave	D
	-
Nor vainly sovereign of the sea	C
Did Eros send his shafts to thee	C
What time the rain of gold	A
Bright Helle with her brother bore	P
How stirred the waves she wandered o'er	E
How stirred thy deeps of old	A
Swift by the maiden's charms subdued	J
Thou cam'st from out the gloomy waves	C
And in thy mighty arms she sank	J2
Into thy bridal caves	C
	-
A goddess with a god to keep	B
In endless youth beneath the deep	B
Her solemn ocean court	K2
And still she smooths thine angry tides	C
Tames thy wild heart and favoring guides	C
The sailor to the port	K2
Beautiful Helle bright one hear	L2
Thy lone adoring suppliant pray	O
And guide O goddess guide my love	H
Along the wonted way	O
	-
Now twilight dims the waters' flow	M2
And from the tower the beacon's glow	M2
Waves flickering o'er the main	N2
Ah where athwart the dismal stream	V
Shall shine the beacon's faithful beam	V
The lover's eyes shall strain	N2
Hark sounds moan threatening from afar	T
From heaven the blessed stars are gone	O2
More darkly swells the rising sea	C
The tempest labors on	P2
	-
Along the ocean's boundless plains	C
Lies night in torrents rush the rains	C
From the dark bosomed cloud	Q2
Red lightning skirs the panting air	Y
And loosed from out their rocky lair	Y
Sweep all the storms abroad	R2
Huge wave on huge wave tumbling o'er	E
The yawning gulf is rent asunder	E
And shows as through an opening pall	S2
Grim earth the ocean under	E
	-
Poor maiden bootless wail or vow	T2
Have mercy Jove be gracious thou	T2
Dread prayer was mine before	P
What if the gods have heard and he	C
Lone victim of the stormy sea	C
Now struggles to the shore	P
There's not a sea bird on the wave	D
Their hurrying wings the shelter seek	I
The stoutest ship the storms have proved	U2
Takes refuge in the creek	I
	-
Ah still that heart which oft has braved	V2
The danger where the daring saved	V2
Love lureth o'er the sea	C
For many a vow at parting morn	W2
That naught but death should bar return	X2
Breathed those dear lips to me	C
And whirled around the while I weep	B
Amid the storm that rides the wave	D
The giant gulf is grasping down	Y2
The rash one to the grave	D
	-
False Pontus and the calm I hailed	Z2
The awaiting murder darkly veiled	Z2
The lulled pellucid flow	M2
The smiles in which thou wert arrayed	A3
Were but the snares that love betrayed	A3
To thy false realm below	M2
Now in the midway of the main	N2
Return relentlessly forbidden	A2
Thou loosenest on the path beyond	B3
The horrors thou hadst hidden	A2
	-
Loud and more loud the tempest raves	C
In thunder break the mountain waves	C
White foaming on the rock	C3
No ship that ever swept the deep	B
Its ribs of gnarled oak could keep	B
Unshattered by the shock	C3
Dies in the blast the guiding torch	D3
To light the struggler to the strand	N
'Tis death to battle with the wave	D
And death no less to land	N
	-
On Venus daughter of the seas	C
She calls the tempest to appease	C
To each wild shrieking wind	E3
Along the ocean desert borne	W2
She vows a steer with golden horn	W2
Vain vow relentless wind	E3
On every goddess of the deep	B
On all the gods in heaven that be	C
She calls to soothe in calm awhile	F3
The tempest laden sea	C
	-
Hearken the anguish of my cries	C
From thy green halls arise arise	C
Leucothoe the divine	G3
Who in the barren main afar	T
Oft on the storm beat mariner	E
Dost gently saving shine	G3
Oh reach to him thy mystic veil	H3
To which the drowning clasp may cling	I3
And safely from that roaring grave	D
To shore my lover bring	I3
	-
And now the savage winds are hushing	I3
And o'er the arched horizon blushing	I3
Day's chariot gleams on high	J3
Back to their wonted channels rolled	A
In crystal calm the waves behold	A
One smile on sea and sky	J3
All softly breaks the rippling tide	S
Low murmuring on the rocky land	N
And playful wavelets gently float	K3
A corpse upon the strand	N
	-
'Tis he who even in death would still	U
Not fail the sweet vow to fulfil	U
She looks sees knows him there	Y
From her pale lips no sorrow speaks	C
No tears glide down her hueless cheeks	C
Cold numbed in her despair	Y
She looked along the silent deep	B
She looked upon the brightening heaven	A2
Till to the marble face the soul	U
Its light sublime had given	A2
	-
Ye solemn powers men shrink to name	L3
Your might is here your rights ye claim	L3
Yet think not I repine	A2
Soon closed my course yet I can bless	C
The life that brought me happiness	C
The fairest lot was mine	A2
Living have I thy temple served	M3
Thy consecrated priestess been	A2
My last glad offering now receive	N3
Venus thou mightiest queen	A2
	-
Flashed the white robe along the air	Y
And from the tower that beetled there	Y
She sprang into the wave	D
Roused from his throne beneath the waste	O3
Those holy forms the god embraced	O3
A god himself their grave	D
Pleased with his prey he glides along	I3
More blithe the murmured music seems	C
A gush from unexhausted urns	C
His everlasting streams	C