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The God of Fair Beginnings	A
Hath prospered here my hand	B
The cargoes of my lading	C
And the keels of my command	B
For out of many ventures	D
That sailed with hope as high	E
My own have made the better trade	F
And Admiral am I	E
	-
To me my King's much honour	G
To me my people's love	H
To me the pride of Princes	I
And power all pride above	H
To me the shouting cities	J
To me the mob's refrain	K
Who knows not noble Valdez	L
Hath never heard of Spain	K
	-
But I remember comrades	M
Old playmates on new seas	J
When as we traded orpiment	N
Among the savages	I
A thousand leagues to south'ard	O
And thirty years removed	P
They knew nor noble Valdez	L
But me they knew and loved	Q
	-
Then they that found good liquor	G
They drank it not alone	R
And they that found fair plunder	G
They told us every one	S
About our chosen islands	T
Or secret shoals between	U
When weary from far voyage	V
We gathered to careen	U
Were burned our breaming fagots	T
All pale along the shore	G
There rose our worn pavilions	T
A sail above an oar	G
As flashed each yeaming anchor	G
Through mellow seas afire	G
So swift our careless captains	T
Rowed each to his desire	G
	-
Where lay our loosened harness	T
Where turned our naked feet	W
Whose tavern 'mid the palm trees	T
What quenchings of what heat	W
Oh fountain in the desert	X
Oh cistern in the waste	Y
Oh bread we ate in secret	Z
Oh cup we spilled in haste	Y
	-
The youth new taught of longing	C
The widow curbed and wan	A2
The goodwife proud at season	S
And the maid aware of man	B2
All souls unslaked consuming	C
Defrauded in delays	T
Desire not more their quittance	T
Than I those forfeit days	T
	-
I dreamed to wait my pleasure	G
Unchanged my spring would bide	C2
Wherefore to wait my pleasure	G
I put my spring aside	C2
Till first in face of Fortune	S
And last in mazed disdain	K
I made Diego Valdez	T
High Admiral of Spain	K
	-
Then walked no wind 'neath Heaven	S
Nor surge that did not aid	F
I dared extreme occasion	S
Nor ever one betrayed	F
They wrought a deeper treason	S
Led seas that served my needs	T
They sold Diego Valdez	T
To bondage of great deeds	T
	-
The tempest flung me seaward	D2
And pinned and bade me hold	E2
The course I might not alter	G
And men esteemed me bold	E2
The calms embayed my quarry	G
The fog wreath sealed his eyes	T
The dawn wind brought my topsails	T
And men esteemed me wise	T
	-
Yet 'spite my tyrant triumphs	T
Bewildered dispossessed	F2
My dream held I before me	G
My vision of my rest	F2
But crowned by Fleet and People	G2
And bound by King and Pope	H2
Stands here Diego Valdez	T
To rob me of my hope	H2
	-
No prayer of mine shall move him	I2
No word of his set free	G
The Lord of Sixty Pennants	T
And the Steward of the Sea	G
His will can loose ten thousand	J2
To seek their loves again	K2
But not Diego Valdez	T
High Admiral of Spain	K
	-
There walks no wind 'neath Heaven	S
Nor wave that shall restore	G
The old careening riot	Z
And the clamorous crowded shore	G
The fountain in the desert	X
The cistern in the waste	Y
The bread we ate in secret	Z
The cup we spilled in haste	Y
	-
Now call I to my Captains	T
For council fly the sign	L2
Now leap their zealous galleys	T
Twelve oared across the brine	L2
To me the straiter prison	S
To me the heavier chain	K
To me Diego Valdez	T
High Admiral of Spain	K

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