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Before my drift wood fire I sit	A
And see with every waif I burn	B
Old dreams and fancies coloring it	A
And folly's unlaid ghosts return	B
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O ships of mine whose swift keels cleft	C
The enchanted sea on which they sailed	D
Are these poor fragments only left	C
Of vain desires and hopes that failed	D
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Did I not watch from them the light	E
Of sunset on my towers in Spain	F
And see far off uploom in sight	E
The Fortunate Isles I might not gain	F
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Did sudden lift of fog reveal	G
Arcadia's vales of song and spring	H
And did I pass with grazing keel	G
The rocks whereon the sirens sing	H
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Have I not drifted hard upon	I
The unmapped regions lost to man	J
The cloud pitched tents of Prester John	I
The palace domes of Kubla Khan	I
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Did land winds blow from jasmine flowers	K
Where Youth the ageless Fountain fills	L
Did Love make sign from rose blown bowers	K
And gold from Eldorado's hills	L
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Alas the gallant ships that sailed	D
On blind Adventure's errand sent	M
Howe'er they laid their courses failed	D
To reach the haven of Content	M
	-
And of my ventures those alone	N
Which Love had freighted safely sped	O
Seeking a good beyond my own	N
By clear eyed Duty piloted	P
	-
O mariners hoping still to meet	Q
The luck Arabian voyagers met	R
And find in Bagdad's moonlit street	Q
Haroun al Raschid walking yet	R
	-
Take with you on your Sea of Dreams	S
The fair fond fancies dear to youth	T
I turn from all that only seems	S
And seek the sober grounds of truth	T
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What matter that it is not May	U
That birds have flown and trees are bare	V
That darker grows the shortening day	U
And colder blows the wintry air	V
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The wrecks of passion and desire	W
The castles I no more rebuild	X
May fitly feed my drift wood fire	W
And warm the hands that age has chilled	X
	-
Whatever perished with my ships	Y
I only know the best remains	Z
A song of praise is on my lips	Y
For losses which are now my gains	Z
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Heap high my hearth No worth is lost	A2
No wisdom with the folly dies	B2
Burn on poor shreds your holocaust	A2
Shall be my evening sacrifice	C2
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Far more than all I dared to dream	D2
Unsought before my door I see	E2
On wings of fire and steeds of steam	D2
The world's great wonders come to me	E2
	-
And holier signs unmarked before	F2
Of Love to seek and Power to save	G2
The righting of the wronged and poor	H2
The man evolving from the slave	G2
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And life no longer chance or fate	I2
Safe in the gracious Fatherhood	J2
I fold o'er wearied hands and wait	I2
In full assurance of the good	J2
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And well the waiting time must be	E2
Though brief or long its granted days	K2
If Faith and Hope and Charity	E2
Sit by my evening hearth fire's blaze	K2
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And with them friends whom Heaven has spared	L2
Whose love my heart has comforted	P
And sharing all my joys has shared	L2
My tender memories of the dead	O
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Dear souls who left us lonely here	M2
Bound on their last long voyage to whom	N2
We day by day are drawing near	O2
Where every bark has sailing room	N2
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I know the solemn monotone	N
Of waters calling unto me	E2
I know from whence the airs have blown	N
That whisper of the Eternal Sea	E2
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As low my fires of drift wood burn	B
I hear that sea's deep sounds increase	P2
And fair in sunset light discern	B
Its mirage lifted Isles of Peace	P2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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