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Oh, Agatha, tell! does thy heart not at times fly away? / Far from the city impure and the lowering sea, / To another ocean that blinds with its dazzling array, / So blue and so clear and profound, like virginity? / Oh, Agatha, tell! does thy heart not at times fly away?
The sea, the vast ocean our travail and trouble consoles! / What demon hath gifted the sea with a voice from on high, / To sing us (attuned to an AEolus-organ that rolls / Forth a grumbling burden) a lenitive lullabye? / The sea, the vast ocean our travail and trouble consoles!