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CHARADE: 14 by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL

First Line: HEARD YE THE LONG, LOW ROAR
Last Line: THINE BE THE GOLD, SO MY LIFE GO FREE!
Subject(s): BARGAINS;

HEARD ye the long, low roar
Blend with the sea-mew's cry?
Saw ye the nearing shore
Where the white foam-wreaths lie?
O wait, seaman, wait while the tempest shall last,
For my @3first@1 is a danger thou hast not passed.
How shall the seaman wait?
There stands his white-walled home,
From its blithely opened gate
Never more need he roam.
My @3second@1 he brings from a distant realm,
And leaves he forever the weary helm.

On! for the tide ebbs fast!
On! for the night grows dark,
But the cold wave-arms are cast
Round the seaman's sinking bark.
He makes my @3whole@1 with the angry sea,—
Thine be the gold, so my life go free!



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