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THE VOYAGER (2) by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: FAR INLAND, WHERE THE SEA
Last Line: WE PART IN TEARS.
Subject(s): SLEEP;
Far inland, where the sea,
Throughout the day,
Lives but in memory --
From twilight gray
As foamless tides of sleep
Their heights attain --
Back to the distant deep
I drift again;

And, as of old, a boy
Seem I to be,
With innocence and joy
Afloat with me,
Till, all too soon, the star
Of morn appears,
And on the slumber-bar
We part in tears.



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