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The panting City cried to the Sea, / "I am faint with heat, -- O breathe on me!"
And the Sea said, "Lo, I breathe! but my breath / To some will be life, to others death!"
As to Prometheus, bringing ease / In pain, come the Oceanides,
So to the City, hot with the flame / Of the pitiless sun, the east wind came.
It came from the heaving breast of the deep, / Silent as dreams are, and sudden as sleep.
Life-giving, death-giving, which will it be; / O breath of the merciful, merciless Sea?