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Over the sea our galleys went	A
With cleaving prows in order brave	B
To a speeding wind and a bounding wave	B
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A gallant armament	C
Each bark built out of a forest tree	D
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Left leafy and rough as first it grew	E
And nailed all over the gaping sides	F
Within and without with black bull hides	F
Seethed in fat and suppled in flame	G
To bear the playful billows' game	G
So each good ship was rude to see	D
Rude and bare to the outward view	E
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But each upbore a stately tent	A
Where cedar pales in scented row	H
Kept out the flakes of the dancing brine	I
And an awning drooped the mast below	H
In fold on fold of the purple fine	I
That neither noontide nor star shine	I
Nor moonlight cold which maketh mad	J
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Might pierce the regal tenement	C
When the sun dawned oh gay and glad	J
We set the sail and plied the oar	K
But when the night wind blew like breath	L
For joy of one day's voyage more	K
We sang together on the wide sea	D
Like men at peace on a peaceful shore	K
Each sail was loosed to the wind so free	D
Each helm made sure by the twilight star	M
And in a sleep as calm as death	L
We the voyagers from afar	M
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Lay stretched along each weary crew	E
In a circle round its wondrous tent	A
Whence gleamed soft light and curled rich scent	A
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And with light and perfume music too	E
So the stars wheeled round and the darkness past	N
And at morn we started beside the mast	N
And still each ship was sailing fast	N
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Now one morn land appeared a speck	O
Dim trembling betwixt sea and sky	P
'Avoid it ' cried our pilot 'check	P
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The shout restrain the eager eye '	-
But the heaving sea was black behind	Q
For many a night and many a day	R
And land though but a rock drew nigh	P
So we broke the cedar pales away	R
Let the purple awning flap in the wind	Q
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And a statue bright was on every deck	P
We shouted every man of us	S
And steered right into the harbour thus	S
With pomp and paean glorious	S
A hundred shapes of lucid stone	T
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All day we built its shrine for each	U
A shrine of rock for every one	V
Nor paused we till in the westering sun	V
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We sat together on the beach	U
To sing because our task was done	V
When lo what shouts and merry songs	W
What laughter all the distance stirs	X
A loaded raft with happy throngs	W
Of gentle islanders	X
'Our isles are just at hand ' they cried	Y
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'Like cloudlets faint in even sleeping	P
Our temple gates are opened wide	Y
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Our olive groves thick shade are keeping	P
For these majestic forms' they cried	Y
Oh then we awoke with sudden start	Z
From our deep dream and knew too late	A2
How bare the rock how desolate	B2
Which had received our precious freight	A2
	-
Yet we called out 'Depart	A2
Our gifts once given must here abide	A2
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Our work is done we have no heart	A2
To mar our work ' we cried	A2

Robert Browning

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