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O we go down to sea in ships -- / But Hope remains behind, / And Love, with laughter on his lips, / And Peace, of passive mind; / While out across the deeps of night, / With lifted sails of prayer, / We voyage off in quest of light, / Nor find it anywhere.
O Thou who wroughtest earth and sea, / Yet keepest from our eyes / The shores of an eternity / In calms of Paradise, / Blow back upon our foolish quest / With all the driving rain / Of blinding tears and wild unrest, / And waft us home again.