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What was it the wind said, / Blowing from the Orient / To the Cross on the hill, / And the fans of the Mill? / What was it the wind said, / Blowing at twilight, / To New England?
The wind that blew from the East / Blew dreamily, / A low song and strange song had the sea. / The Islanders sought each other's eyes, / And young men dreamed enterprise; / Then sails put from the shores, / And wives stood alone at the doors; / For the old world, the strange world, called / To New England!