"Sea! Oh you timeless beauty!
Bounteous mother, moon’s frenzied lover!
Blessed are you in world’s decree;
Singing, dancing and brimming in eternal cheer.
Upright on untiring feet I live and live;
Voiceless and lame, an armless gargantuan.
No lives to nurse or alms to give,
a solitary, faceless anchorman.”
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“Yes. Your tongueless frame never could count
The lost sea-farers that you led to happy homes.
No slumbering soul ever kept account
of nights you stood sentinel, in lone illume.
My frothy waves shall ne’er tire
of kissing your gridlocked feet.
Rising-falling-rising they aspire
to copy your oblivious feat.
For there’s light within you,
A beacon birthing within, spreading without…
Night’s eye! Land’s unfailing virtue!
Lighted, as you tower over all, all else blackout!”
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