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I do remember how, when very young, / I saw the great sea first, and heard its swell / As I drew nearer, caught within the spell / Of its vast size and its mysterious tongue.
How the floor trembled, and the dark boat swung / With a man in it, and a great wave fell / Within a stone's cast! Words may never tell / The passion of the moment, when I flung / All childish records by, and felt arise / A thing that died no more! An awful power / I claimed with trembling hands and eager eyes, / Mine, mine for ever, an immortal dower. -- / The noise of waters soundeth to this hour / When I look seaward through the quiet skies.