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| THE SKIES are sown with stars tonight, | |
| The sea is sown with light, | |
| The hollows of the heaving floor | |
| Gleam deep with light once more, | |
| The racing ebb-tide flashes past | 5 |
| And seeks the vacant vast, | |
| A wind steals from a world asleep | |
| And walks the restless deep. | |
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| It walks the deep in ecstasy, | |
| It lives! and loves to free | 10 |
| Its spirit to the silent night, | |
| And breathes deep in delight; | |
| Above the sea that knows no coast, | |
| Beneath the starry host, | |
| The wind walks like the souls of men | 15 |
| Who walk with God again. | |
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| The souls of men who walk with God! | |
| With faith’s firm sandals shod, | |
| A lambent passion, body-free, | |
| Fain for eternity! | 20 |
| O spirit born of human sighs, | |
| Set loose ’twixt sea and skies, | |
| Be thou an Angel of mankind, | |
| Thou night-unfettered wind! | |
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| Bear thou the dreams of weary earth, | 25 |
| Bear thou Tomorrow’s birth, | |
| Take all our longings up to Him | |
| Until His stars grow dim; | |
| A moving anchorage of prayer, | |
| Thou cool and healing air, | 30 |
| Heading off-shore till shoreless dawn | |
| Breaks fair and night is gone. | |
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