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From coasts of commerce and myriad-marted
Towns of traffic by wide seas parted,
Past shoals unmapp'd and by reefs uncharted
The single-hearted my isle attains!
Under a sky cloudless and high,
The blue sea's pearl and the green world's wonder
Dreams thro' her day by that fair bay
Where no waves thunder, where no winds veer,
No friends forgetful, for hearts remember
When no change mars and no years dismember,
Where the flame sinks never to ashen ember
Where no December deflowers the year.
Each soul may find faith to her mind,
Seek you the peace of the groves Elysian,
Or the ivy twine and the wands of vine,
The Dionysian, Orphic rite?
