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Weep not that you no longer feel the tide / High breasting sun and storm, that bore along / Your youth on currents of perpetual song: / For in these mid-stream waters, still and wide, / A sleepless purpose the great deep doth hide; / Here spring the mighty fountains pure and strong, / That bear sweet change of breath to city throng, / Who, had the sea no breeze, would soon have died. / So though the sun shines not in such a blue, / Nor have the stars the meaning youth deviced, / The heavens are nigher, and a light shines through / The brightness that nor sun nor stars sufficed; / And on this lonely waste we find it true / Lost youth and love, not lost, are hid with Christ.