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Were you ever told the legend old	A
Of the birth of storms at sea	B
You should hear the tale in a Channel gale	C
As happened once to me	B
On a fearful night off Fastnet Light	D
With Ireland on our lee	B
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In the good old days which poets praise	E
As the best that man hath seen	F
The storm king's hand might smite the land	G
But the sea remained serene	F
Blow east blow west its sun kissed breast	H
Kept ever its tranquil sheen	F
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Not a single trace came o'er its face	I
Of the storms that raged elsewhere	J
No misty screen e'er crept between	F
The sun and its image there	J
And its depths at night were gemmed with light	D
By stars in the crystal air	J
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The fisherman laughed in his little craft	K
If a landsman felt alarm	L
For never did gale a ship assail	C
Or a sailor suffer harm	L
There was nothing to fear for the skies were clear	M
And the ocean always calm	N
	-
But on the shore where more and more	O
The human race increased	P
There were cold and heat and snow and sleet	Q
And troubles never ceased	P
For wind and rain beat down the grain	R
And the plague slew man and beast	P
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And even worse was the moral curse	S
That came like a deadly blight	D
Through men who seized whate'er they pleased	T
On the plea that might makes right	D
Till the fatal seed of selfish greed	U
Made life a bitter fight	D
	-
Hence many sighed as they watched the tide	V
Glide out to the sunset sea	B
And longed to go with its gentle flow	W
To where they hoped might be	B
A realm of peace where sorrows cease	X
And souls from pain are free	B
	-
At last they said We were better dead	Y
Than endure this anguish more	O
Let us seek relief from care and grief	Z
Far out from the storm swept shore	O
The sea can bring no sadder thing	A2
Than the life we lived before	O
	-
So a ship was framed which they fondly named	B2
The Peace of the Human Mind	C2
And the weary band soon left the land	G
And its ceaseless strife behind	C2
But unattained the goal remained	D2
They had so longed to find	C2
	-
For the souls that came were quite the same	E2
As they were before they sailed	F2
And as pride and hate did not abate	G2
The hope of the voyagers failed	F2
And facing alone the great Unknown	H2
The bravest spirits quailed	F2
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Meanwhile the ship began to dip	I2
And labored to and fro	W
For the sea though fair could no more bear	J
This load of human woe	W
And at last the boat with all afloat	F2
Sank helplessly below	W
	-
Down down it swirled to the nether world	F2
While up from the riven main	R
Came the gurgling sound of those who drowned	F2
As the vortex closed again	J2
The sea surged back to its wonted track	K2
Once more 'twas a sun lit plain	R
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But soon men saw with deepening awe	L2
That sea grow white with spray	M2
Its brilliant hue was changed from blue	N2
To a deathlike leaden gray	M2
And a sullen roar approached the shore	O
Whence the ship had sailed away	M2
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Huge waves rolled in with frightful din	O2
And spat out hissing foam	P2
And smote the sand along the strand	F2
And swept off many a home	P2
And lightnings flashed and thunder crashed	F2
From heaven's ink black dome	P2
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Alas they cried that our brothers died	F2
In the depths of the sea of peace	X
They have brought unrest to its quiet breast	F2
Which nevermore shall cease	X
For the peace it lost we must pay the cost	F2
And behold our woes increase	X
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In truth since then how many men	J2
Have learned that the mighty deep	Q2
Can heave and swell to a seething hell	R2
When storms its surface sweep	Q2
For its calm hath fled and countless dead	F2
Are the spoils it loves to heap	Q2
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But at its best when it lies at rest	F2
On a cloudless summer day	M2
And tiger like forbears to strike	S2
But sated basks at play	M2
One seems to hear with the psychic ear	T2
Its murmuring wavelets say	M2
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No real relief from care and grief	Z
Is found o'er distant waves	U2
The men who sail to find it fail	C
And sink to lonely graves	U2
In the firm control of man's own soul	V2
Is alone the peace he craves	U2

John L. Stoddard

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