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| BLUE and gold, and mist and sunlight, | |
| Veils of colour blent and blown | |
| In melodic monotone. | |
| Dark and bright, and white and dun light | |
| Clash and flash, as into one light | 5 |
| Trembling thro’ an opal stone, | |
| Over green robes of the mountain | |
| And the blue skirts of the sea, | |
| Spreading from a sacred fountain | |
| Hymeneal harmony. | 10 |
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| Drums and trumpets of the ocean, | |
| Oboe spirits of the wind, | |
| Violins of forest kind, | |
| Flutes that breathe the trees’ devotion, | |
| Blending, hymn the joyous motion | 15 |
| Of the universal mind, | |
| When, with chariot cavorting, | |
| And a storm of symphonies, | |
| Horses snorting, banners sporting, | |
| Ocean Seas wed Harbour Seas. | 20 |
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| Salt of waves, and scent of roses, | |
| Seaweed strown along the sand, | |
| Blossoms blown from high head-land, | |
| As the Ocean-Lord reposes | |
| Where the Harbour dreams and dozes, | 25 |
| Sultan and Sultana bland, | |
| Rocky shrubs, earth, fragrant grasses | |
| Spiced with sand and sea and sun, | |
| As the gay procession passes, | |
| Know that all things are but one. | 30 |
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| At the sun a wave laughs, leaping | |
| Thro’ intoxicating air | |
| Like a child with tossing hair. | |
| But a sea-gull, vigil keeping | |
| Flutters, musically sweeping, | 35 |
| Delicate and debonair, | |
| Where the wave leaps, lightly wheeling, | |
| Like a flash of amethyst | |
| Clasps the wave, then leaves her, stealing | |
| Kisses by the sunshine kissed. | 40 |
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| Bird that brilliant pinion flies on | |
| Thro’ the azure atmosphere | |
| Pipes a duet, sweet and clear, | |
| With the wind the sunlight lies on; | |
| Sea weds Sky on dim horizon, | 45 |
| And the distant joins the near. | |
| Wave and cloud, and fish and swallow, | |
| Swaying tree and flying bird | |
| Music maddened, flee and follow | |
| Till pale mortals, too, are stirred. | 50 |
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| Over all things Love stands warder. | |
| Cloud seeks wave, while close behind | |
| Cloud is followed by the wind. | |
| Dionysean disorder | |
| Laughs, and leaps o’er bar and border, | 55 |
| Breaks the shackles of the mind; | |
| And in wine-enchanted weather | |
| Culls, that life and joy be one, | |
| Grapes to mix all things together | |
| From the Garden of the Sun. | 60 |
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| Nature takes delight in shedding | |
| Love that joins with benison | |
| All the elements in one; | |
| And to-day the feast is spreading | |
| Till her creatures all are wedding, | 65 |
| And of sorrow there is none… | |
| So the Summer Day rehearses | |
| Bridal lyrics mad to sing | |
| As a viol or a verse is, | |
| Of the joy of everything. | 70 |
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