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The Secret of the Sea.
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Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long,Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song.
Like the long waves on a sea-beach, Where the sand as silver shines,With a soft, monotonous cadence, Flow its unrhymed lyric lines;—
Telling how the Count Arnaldos, With his hawk upon his hand,Saw a fair and stately galley, Onward steering to the land;—
How he heard the ancient helmsman Chant a song so wild and clear,That the sailing sea-bird slowly Poised upon the mast to hear,
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