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O it was but a dream I had / While the musician played! -- / And here the sky, and here the glad / Old ocean kissed the glade -- / And here the laughing ripples ran, / And here the roses grew / That threw a kiss to every man / That voyaged with the crew.
Our silken sails in lazy folds / Drooped in the breathless breeze: / As o'er a field of marigolds / Our eyes swam o'er the seas; / While here the eddies lisped and purled / Around the island's rim, / And up from out the underworld / We saw the mermen swim.