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The days flow on, and on, / And never one comes back. / Another year has vanished and gone, / As the waves of the sea wash out the track / On the shining sands o' th' shore. / And patience waneth, and hope is spent, / As I wait and watch for the one who went, / And cometh to me no more.
The spring-time lived and died, / And the summer followed fast; / And I watched through both, with a heart that cried, / For the one who vanished into the past, / Like a beautiful star from the sky; / Who sailed in a good ship over the sea, / And the ship came back: But "where is he, / Oh, treacherous ship," I cry?