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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477914" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wind And The Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I STOOD by the shore at the death of day,<br>As the sun sank flaming red;<br>And the face of the waters that spread away<br>Was as gray as the face of the dead.<br>And I heard the cry of the wanton sea<br>And the moan of the wailing wind;<br>For love's sweet pain in his heart had he,<br>But the gray old sea had sinned.<br>The wind was young and the sea was old,<br>But their cries went up together;<br>The wind was warm and the sea was cold,<br>For age makes wintry weather.<br>So they cried aloud and they wept amain,<br>Till the sky grew dark to hear it;<br>And out of its folds crept the misty rain,<br>In its shroud, like a troubled spirit.<br>For the wind was wild with a hopeless love,<br>And the sea was sad at heart<br>At many a crime that he wot of,<br>Wherein he had played his part.<br>He thought of the gallant ships gone down<br>By the will of his wicked waves;<br>And he thought how the churchyard in the town<br>Held the sea-made widows' graves.<br>The wild wind thought of the love he had left<br>Afar in an Eastern land,<br>And he longed, as long the much bereft,<br>For the touch of her perfumed hand.<br>In his winding wail and his deep-heaved sigh<br>His aching grief found vent;<br>While the sea looked up at the bending sky<br>And murmured: 'I repent.'<br>But e'en as he spoke, a ship came by,<br>That bravely ploughed the main,<br>And a light came into the sea's green eye,<br>And his heart grew hard again.<br>Then he spoke to the wind: 'Friend, seest thou not<br>Yon vessel is eastward bound?<br>Pray speed with it to the happy spot<br>Where thy loved one may be found.'<br>And the wind rose up in a dear delight,<br>And after the good ship sped;<br>But the crafty sea by his wicked might<br>Kept the vessel ever ahead.<br>Till the wind grew fierce in his despair,<br>And white on the brow and lip.<br>He tore his garments and tore his hair,<br>And fell on the flying ship.<br>And the ship went down, for a rock was there,<br>And the sailless sea loomed black;<br>While burdened again with dole and care,<br>The wind came moaning back.<br>And still he moans from his bosom hot<br>Where his raging grief lies pent,<br>And ever when the ships come not,<br>The sea says: 'I repent,'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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As the sun sank flaming red;
And the face of the waters that spread away
Was as gray as the face of the dead.
And I heard the cry of the wanton sea
And the moan of the wailing wind;
For love's sweet pain i..."></div>
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