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 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. 
 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? 
 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. 
 Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,
 Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.  
 Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,
 Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 
 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. 
 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!
 Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
  Man read more 
 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!
 Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control
   Stops with the shore. 
 The sea! the sea! the open sea!
 The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
  Without a mark, read more 
 The sea! the sea! the open sea!
 The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
  Without a mark, without a bound,
   It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
    It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
     Or like a cradled creature lies. 
 The breaking waves dashed high
 On a stern and rock-bound coast;
  And the woods against a stormy read more 
 The breaking waves dashed high
 On a stern and rock-bound coast;
  And the woods against a stormy sky,
   Their giant branches toss'd. 
 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a 
pot of ointment.  
 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a 
pot of ointment.