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Bring me one breath from the deep salt sea, / Ye vagrant upland airs!
Over your forest and field and lea, / From the windy deeps that have mothered me, / To the heart of one who cares.
Clear to the peace of the sunlit park, / You bring with your evening lull / The vesper song of the meadow lark; / But my soul is sick for the seething dark, / And the scream of a wind-blown gull.
And bring to me from the ocean's breast / No crooning lullaby; / But the shout of a bleak storm-riven crest / As it shoulders up in the sodden West / And hurtles down the sky.
That, breathing deep, I may feel the sweep / Of the wind and the driving rain.
For so I know that my heart will leap / To meet the call of the strident deep, / And will thrill to life again.