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THE VOICE OF THE WAVES.
—And the Sea's voice replied,
"Here noble things have been!
"Power with the valiant when they died,
"To sanctify the scene:
"Courage, in fragile form,
"Faith, trusting to the last,
"Prayer, breathing heavenwards thro' the storm:
"But all alike have pass'd!"
Sound on, thou haughty Sea!
These have not passed in vain;
My soul awakes, my hope springs free
On victor-wings again.
Thou, from thine empire driven,
May'st vanish with thy powers;
But, by the hearts that here have striven,
A loftier doom is ours!
