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The sea is mighty but a mightier sways	A
His restless billows Thou whose hands have scooped	B
His boundless gulfs and built his shore thy breath	C
That moved in the beginning o'er his face	D
Moves o'er it evermore The obedient waves	E
To its strong motion roll and rise and fall	F
Still from that realm of rain thy cloud goes up	G
As at the first to water the great earth	H
And keep her valleys green A hundred realms	I
Watch its broad shadow warping on the wind	J
And in the dropping shower with gladness hear	K
Thy promise of the harvest I look forth	L
Over the boundless blue where joyously	F
The bright crests of innumerable waves	E
Glance to the sun at once as when the hands	M
Of a great multitude are upward flung	N
In acclamation I behold the ships	O
Gliding from cape to cape from isle to isle	F
Or stemming toward far lands or hastening home	P
From the old world It is thy friendly breeze	Q
That bears them with the riches of the land	R
And treasure of dear lives till in the port	S
The shouting seaman climbs and furls the sail	F
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But who shall bide thy tempest who shall face	D
The blast that wakes the fury of the sea	T
Oh God thy justice makes the world turn pale	F
When on the armed fleet that royally	T
Bears down the surges carrying war to smite	S
Some city or invade some thoughtless realm	U
Descends the fierce tornado The vast hulks	V
Are whirled like chaff upon the waves the sails	W
Fly rent like webs of gossamer the masts	X
Are snapped asunder downward from the decks	Y
Downward are slung into the fathomless gulf	Z
Their cruel engines and their hosts arrayed	S
In trappings of the battle field are whelmed	S
By whirlpools or dashed dead upon the rocks	A2
Then stand the nations still with awe and pause	B2
A moment from the bloody work of war	C2
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These restless surges eat away the shores	D2
Of earth's old continents the fertile plain	E2
Welters in shallows headlands crumble down	F2
And the tide drifts the sea sand in the streets	G2
Of the drowned city Thou meanwhile afar	H2
In the green chambers of the middle sea	T
Where broadest spread the waters and the line	I2
Sinks deepest while no eye beholds thy work	J2
Creator thou dost teach the coral worm	K2
To lay his mighty reefs From age to age	L2
He builds beneath the waters till at last	S
His bulwarks overtop the brine and check	M2
The long wave rolling from the southern pole	F
To break upon Japan Thou bid'st the fires	N2
That smoulder under ocean heave on high	O2
The new made mountains and uplift their peaks	P2
A place of refuge for the storm driven bird	S
The birds and wafting billows plant the rifts	Q2
With herb and tree sweet fountains gush sweet airs	R2
Ripple the living lakes that fringed with flowers	N2
Are gathered in the hollows Thou dost look	S2
On thy creation and pronounce it good	S
Its valleys glorious with their summer green	T2
Praise thee in silent beauty and its woods	U2
Swept by the murmuring winds of ocean join	V2
The murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn	W2

William Cullen Bryant

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