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NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY

First Line: DOUARNENEZ! DOUARNENEZ!
Last Line: BREAK ON MINE EYES WITH THE BREAKING DAY!
Subject(s): EYES; FISH & FISHING; HOME; SEA; TOWNS; OCEAN;

Douarnenez! Douarnenez!
O little town on the fishing bay!
O southern sea, too soft, too blue,
Let me thro'! let me thro'!
Till the green and the cold of the western sea
And the lonely cliffs of Brittany
And home, my home, Douarnenez,
Break on mine eyes with the breaking day!



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