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First Line: The sea-gulls whiten and dip
Last Line: And I would that my ship went down within sight of the shore!
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean


The sea-gulls whiten and dip,
Crying their lonely cry,
At noon in the blue of the bay;
And I hear the slow oars drip,
As the fisherman's boat drifts by,
And the cuckoo calls from the hillside far away.

The white birds cry for the foam,
O white birds crying to me
The cry of my heart evermore,
By perilous seas to roam
To a shore far over the sea,
And I would that my ship went down within sight of the shore!





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