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A dove flew with an Olive Branch	A
It crossed the sea and reached the shore	B
And on a ship about to launch	C
Dropped down the happy sign it bore	B
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'An omen' rang the glad acclaim	D
The Captain stooped and picked it up	E
'Be then the Olive Branch her name '	-
Cried she who flung the christening cup	E
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The vessel took the laughing tides	F
It was a joyous revelry	G
To see her dashing from her sides	F
The rough salt kisses of the sea	G
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And forth into the bursting foam	H
She spread her sail and sped away	I
The rolling surge her restless home	H
Her incense wreaths the showering spray	I
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Far out and where the riot waves	J
Run mingling in tumultuous throngs	K
She danced above a thousand graves	J
And heard a thousand briny songs	K
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Her mission with her manly crew	L
Her flag unfurl'd her title told	M
She took the Old World to the New	L
And brought the New World to the Old	M
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Secure of friendliest welcomings	K
She swam the havens sheening fair	N
Secure upon her glad white wings	K
She fluttered on the ocean air	N
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To her no more the bastioned fort	O
Shot out its swarthy tongue of fire	P
From bay to bay from port to port	O
Her coming was the world's desire	P
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And tho' the tempest lashed her oft	Q
And tho' the rocks had hungry teeth	R
And lightnings split the masts aloft	Q
And thunders shook the planks beneath	R
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And tho' the storm self willed and blind	S
Made tatters of her dauntless sail	T
And all the wildness of the wind	S
Was loosed on her she did not fail	T
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But gallantly she ploughed the main	U
And gloriously her welcome pealed	S
And grandly shone to sky and plain	U
The goodly bales her decks revealed	S
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Brought from the fruitful eastern glebes	K
Where blow the gusts of balm and spice	K
Or where the black blockaded ribs	K
Are jammed 'mongst ghostly fleets of ice	K
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Or where upon the curling hills	K
Glow clusters of the bright eyed grape	V
Or where the hand of labour drills	K
The stubbornness of earth to shape	V
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Rich harvestings and wealthy germs	K
And handicrafts and shapely wares	K
And spinnings of the hermit worms	K
And fruits that bloom by lions' lairs	K
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Come read the meaning of the deep	W
The use of winds and waters learn	X
'Tis not to make the mother weep	W
For sons that never will return	X
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'Tis not to make the nations show	Y
Contempt for all whom seas divide	S
'Tis not to pamper war and woe	Y
Nor feed traditionary pride	S
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'Tis not to make the floating bulk	Z
Mask death upon its slippery deck	A2
Itself in turn a shattered hulk	Z
A ghastly raft a bleeding wreck	A2
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It is to knit with loving lip	B2
The interests of land to land	S
To join in far seen fellowship	B2
The tropic and the polar strand	S
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It is to make that foaming Strength	C2
Whose rebel forces wrestle still	D2
Thro' all his boundaried breadth and length	C2
Become a vassal to our will	D2
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It is to make the various skies	K
And all the various fruits they vaunt	S
And all the dowers of earth we prize	K
Subservient to our household want	S
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And more for knowledge crowns the gain	U
Of intercourse with other souls	K
And Wisdom travels not in vain	U
The plunging spaces of the poles	K
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The wild Atlantic's weltering gloom	E2
Earth clasping seas of North and South	F2
The Baltic with its amber spume	E2
The Caspian with its frozen mouth	F2
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The broad Pacific basking bright	S
And girdling lands of lustrous growth	G2
Vast continents and isles of light	S
Dumb tracts of undiscovered sloth	G2
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She visits these traversing each	H2
They ripen to the common sun	I2
Thro' diverse forms and different speech	H2
The world's humanity is one	I2
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O may her voice have power to say	K
How soon the wrecking discords cease	K
When every wandering wave is gay	K
With golden argosies of peace	K
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Now when the ark of human fate	S
Long baffled by the wayward wind	S
Is drifting with its peopled freight	S
Safe haven on the heights to find	S
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Safe haven from the drowning slime	E2
Of evil deeds and Deluge wrath	J2
To plant again the foot of Time	E2
Upon a purer firmer path	J2
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'Tis now the hour to probe the ground	S
To watch the Heavens to speak the word	S
The fathoms of the deep to sound	S
And send abroad the missioned bird	S
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On strengthened wing for evermore	B
Let Science swiftly as she can	K2
Fly seaward on from shore to shore	B
And bind the links of man to man	K2
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And like that fair propitious Dove	L2
Bless future fleets about to launch	C
Make every freight a freight of love	L2
And every ship an Olive Branch	A

George Meredith

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