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Down here where the ships loom large in	A
The gloom when the sea storms veer	B
Down here on the south west margin	C
Of the western hemisphere	B
Where the might of a world wide ocean	C
Round the youngest land rolls free	D
Storm bound from the world s commotion	C
Lie the Ports of the Open Sea	D
By the bluff where the grey sand reaches	E
To the kerb of the spray swept street	F
By the sweep of the black sand beaches	E
From the main road travellers feet	F
By the heights like a work Titanic	G
By a bluff lined coast volcanic	G
Lie the Ports of the wild South east	H
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By the steeps of the snow capped range	I
By the scarped and terraced hills	J
Far away from the swift life changes	E
From the wear of the strife that kills	J
Where the land in the Spring seems younger	K
Than a land of the Earth might be	D
Oh the hearts of the rovers hunger	K
For the Ports of the Open Sea	D
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But the captains watch and hearken	C
For a sign of the South Sea wrath	L
Let the face of the South east darken	C
And they turn to the ocean path	L
Ay the sea boats dare not linger	K
Whatever the cargo be	D
When the South east lifts a finger	K
By the Ports of the Open Sea	D
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South by the bleak Bluff faring	M
North where the Three Kings wait	N
South east the tempest daring	O
Flight through the storm tossed strait	N
Yonder a white winged roamer	K
Struck where the rollers roar	K
Where the great green froth flaked comber	K
Breaks down on a black ribbed shore	K
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For the South east lands are dread lands	P
To the sailor in the shrouds	Q
Where the low clouds loom like headlands	Q
And the black bluffs blur like clouds	Q
When the breakers rage to windward	R
And the lights are masked a lee	D
And the sunken rocks run inward	R
To a Port of the Open Sea	D
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But oh for the South east weather	K
The sweep of the three days gale	S
When far through the flax and heather	K
The spindrift drives like hail	S
Glory to man s creations	Q
That drive where the gale grows gruff	T
When the homes of the sea coast stations	Q
Flash white from the dark ning bluff	T
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When the swell of the South east rouses	Q
The wrath of the Maori sprite	U
And the brown folk flee their houses	Q
And crouch in the flax by night	U
And wait as they long have waited	V
In fear as the brown folk be	D
The wave of destruction fated	W
For the Ports of the Open Sea	D
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Grey cloud to the mountain bases	Q
Wild boughs that rush and sweep	X
On the rounded hills the tussocks	Q
Like flocks of flying sheep	X
A lonely storm bird soaring	O
O er tussock fern and tree	D
And the boulder beaches roaring	O
The Hymn of the Open Sea	D

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