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The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, / And round the pebbly beaches far and wide / I heard the first wave of the rising tide / Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep; / A voice out of the silence of the deep, / A sound mysteriously multiplied / As of a cataract from the mountain's side, / Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep. / So comes to us at times, from the unknown / And inaccessible solitudes of being, / The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul; / And inspirations, that we deem our own, / Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing / Of things beyond our reason or control.