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 Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy 
waves and thy billows are gone over read more 
 Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy 
waves and thy billows are gone over me. 
 Ye waves
 That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
  Your crisped smiles.  
 Ye waves
 That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
  Your crisped smiles. 
 Behold the Sea,
 The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
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 Behold the Sea,
 The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
   Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
    Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
     Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
      Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
       Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
        And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
         Giving a hint of that which changes not. 
 I never was on the dull, tame shore,
 But I loved the great sea more and more.  
 I never was on the dull, tame shore,
 But I loved the great sea more and more. 
 What are the wild waves saying,
 Sister, the whole day long,
  That ever amid our playing
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 What are the wild waves saying,
 Sister, the whole day long,
  That ever amid our playing
   I hear but their low, lone song? 
 Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
 And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
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 Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
 And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
  That knows his rider. 
 That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
 Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--
  Are but read more 
 That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
 Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--
  Are but the solemn decorations all
   Of the great tomb of man. 
 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a 
swaddlingband for it,
 And brake up read more 
 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a 
swaddlingband for it,
 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here 
shall thy proud waves be stayed? 
The great fishpond (the sea).
The great fishpond (the sea).