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A SEA DREAM

1. We sailed all night on a sapphire sea,

Under the crystal moon,

Over the waves as they danced in glee,

And sang to the sea-wind´s tune;

Away, when the town was sound asleep

And the land was lulled to rest,

Where the silvery spears of the stars sink deep

Down into the ocean´s breast.

2. And far as we sailed, a line of light

Led from the shadowy shore,

In links of phosphorus falling bright

From the blade of the guiding oar.

And on to the silvery smile that played

On the lips of the slumbering sea,

The moonbeams an angel pathway made

Like the spray on the hawthorn tree.

3. Round and round did the wavelets croon

In the deep delight of dream,

And the wind sang songs of the seas that swoon

In the summer sun´s sultry beam.

It sang of the morning and rosy dawn,

And the wakening smile of love,

When the curtains of dreamland and night are drawn,

And the sun rises radiant above.

4. All night long we sailed and sailed

Over the slumbering sea,

Till the eastern sky into amethyst paled,

And the gulls screamed loud in their glee.

Such songs and such scenes no poet hath sung,

Nor pictured with passionate pen;

But when in the heavens God´s star-lamps are hung,

We´ll hear them and see them again.

— GABRIEL SETOUN

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