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Weary of myself, and sick of asking / What I am, and what I ought to be, / At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me / Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.
And a look of passionate desire / O'er the sea and to the stars I send: / "Ye who from my childhood up have calm'd me, / Calm me, ah, compose me to the end.