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THALATTA, by                    
First Line: Hark to the soft, imperious conversation
Last Line: The ocean's roar is but the voice of wisdom there confined.
Subject(s): Voices; Wisdom


HARK to the soft, imperious conversation
Of the blue-lipped ghostly sea,
To the roaring, ghoulish roaring
Of its watery symphony,
To the seething, rolling, heaving
Of its vast limpidity!

What is the mystery of the voice that issues from the deep?
Whose waves of purplish indigo lull sailors to their sleep,
Where crested rollers on the shore their lacy ribbons toss
And mawkish mists in dreary shrouds the gruesome rocks emboss?

The endless voice you hear, my child, reverberant and low
Is but an Echo of the Truth which men be times will know,—
The Ocean in his caverns damp conceals th' eternal mind,
The Ocean's roar is but the voice of wisdom there confined.





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