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MOUNTAIN-BORN by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: HOW HAST THOU, LITTLE SPRING
Last Line: "AGAIN I NIGHTLY RISE."
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;

How hast thou, little spring,
The heart to sing,
Leaving thy lofty home
For yonder plain,
Whence ne'er again
Returning canst thou come?

"Nay, not as now I go;
But mute as snow,"
The laughing wave replies;
"To crown the height,
In vapors white
Again I nightly rise."



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