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/ Wail! wail! and smite your lyres' sonorous gold, / And beckon naked beauty from the sea / In arms and breasts and hips of godly mold, / Dark, strangling hair carousing to the knee.
/ In vain! in vain! and dull in unclosed ears / To one loved voice sweet calling o'er the foam, / Which in my heart like some strong hand appears / To gently, firmly draw my vessel home.