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What is fire, that its flame should consume her?
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BY THE NORTH SEA.
His gift that renews in the giving.
The joy that exalts him to be
Alone of all elements living
The lord of the sea.
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More fierce than all fires are her waves:
What is earth, that its gulfs should entomb her?
More deep are her own than their graves.
Life shrinks from his pinions that cover
The darkness by thunders bedinned:
But she knows him, her lord and her lover,
The godhead of wind.
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