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COME! by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: FROM AN ISLAND OF THE SEA
Last Line: COME, COME AWAY!'

From an island of the sea
Sounds a voice that summons me, --
'Turn thy prow, sailor, come
With the wind home!'

Sweet o'er the rainbow foam,
Sweet in the treetops, 'Come,
Coral, cliff, and watery sand,
Sea-wave to land!

'Droop not thy lids at night,
Furl not thy sails from flight!. . .'
Cease, cease, above the wave,
Deep as the grave!

O, what voice of the salt sea
Calls me so insistently?
Echoes, echoes, night and day, --
'Come, come away!'



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