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BY THE NORTH SEA.

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10.

Here the wise wave-wandering steadfast-hearted

⁠Guest of many a lord of many a land
Saw the shape or shade of years departed,
⁠Saw the semblance risen and hard at hand,
Saw the mother long from love's reach parted,
⁠Anticleia, like a statue stand.

11.

Statue? nay, nor tissued image woven

⁠Fair on hangings in his father's hall;
Nay, too fast her faith of heart was proven,
⁠Far too firm her loveliest love of all;
Love wherethrough the loving heart was cloven,
⁠Love that hears not when the loud Fates call.

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