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THE SEA-GULL.
The land has gone up to the morning
With songs invisibly high,
But where is the voice of the ocean
To sing to the ocean sky?
With songs invisibly high,
But where is the voice of the ocean
To sing to the ocean sky?
It trembles, it smiles, it would dance too,
But how shall it utter its glee?
When lo! from its bosom up-glancing,
The visible song of the sea!
But how shall it utter its glee?
When lo! from its bosom up-glancing,
The visible song of the sea!
It wheels, and it soars, and in silence
Floats with its white wings at rest;
It wheels and descends, and the ocean
Receives the snow-bird to its breast.
Floats with its white wings at rest;
It wheels and descends, and the ocean
Receives the snow-bird to its breast.
O sea-gull, up-flung from the ocean,
Thy beauty was song to the eye,
While the land was saluting the morning
With voices invisibly high!
Thy beauty was song to the eye,
While the land was saluting the morning
With voices invisibly high!
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