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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Depths of the Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Depths of the fathomless sea,<br>What do you hold in your caves?<br>Motionless hearts that bounded free,<br>And many a costly argosie,<br>That gallantly rode on your waves?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes! motionless hearts are there,<br>And many a glassy eye—<br>And many a gem of price ye bear,<br>Ingots of gold and spices rare,<br>That in the salt wave lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, if the dead could speak,<br>What a tale might ye unfold!<br>Of the roaring surge and the blanching cheek,<br>Of the crashing mast, and the one wild shriek,<br>As the waters over them roll'd!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weary sailor sleeps<br>In your beautiful coral bowers;<br>The polar star its night ward keeps,<br>But he heeds it not—and his loved one weeps,<br>As she counts the wearisome hours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cheek of beauty is there,<br>But its blush has faded away—<br>The sea-weed wraps what was once so fair,<br>And the water-snake twines with her flowing hair,<br>As though it but mock'd her decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The speaking eye is dim,<br>That flash'd with its glance of light—<br>The youth drank of life's cup, while joy bathed its brim,<br>But the long draught of bitterness was not for him,<br>And the pride-curl'd lip is white!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young and the old are there,<br>The coward heart and the brave—<br>Those to whom life in her morning shone fair,<br>And those who were wasted with cankering care,<br>The freeman, the tyrant, the slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The infant is there, with the light<br>Of his innocent smile round his brow;<br>He laugh'd when the foam on that pitiless night,<br>Curl'd o'er the rude wave with its sparkles of light—<br>But his blue eye is slumbering now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there is the beautiful bride,<br>Still entwined in her lover's last grasp;<br>The warrior rests with his foe by his side,<br>And the mother yet seems, in her matronly pride,<br>To enfold that fair boy in her clasp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye depths of the billowy sea!<br>How many a tale of fear,<br>Of the plunging corse, and the mutiny,<br>And the blood-red banner of piracy,<br>Could ye tell to the shuddering ear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And of how, at the dead of night,<br>The captive burst his chain,<br>And with one glance at the moon's fair light,<br>Forever he sunk from the tyrant's sight—<br>And the wave roll'd on again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, ye are a changeless mystery—<br>The heavens are wreathed in flame,<br>And the bark is toss'd on the raging sea,<br>Or the sunbeam smiles with its breezes free—<br>But ye are forever the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q>
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