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Skilled mariner, and counted sane and wise, / That was a curious thing which chanced to me, / So good a sailor on so fair a sea. / With favouring winds and blue unshadowed skies, / Led by the faithful beacon of Love's eyes, / Past reef and shoal, my life-boat bounded free / And fearless of all changes that might be / Under calm waves, where many a sunk rock lies.
A golden dawn; yet suddenly my barque / Strained at the sails, as in a cyclone's blast; / And battled with an unseen current's force, / For we had entered when the night was dark / That old tempestuous Gulf Stream of the Past. / But for love's eyes, I had not kept the course.