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BEACON (FOR A SEASIDE SHEPHERD OF SOULS), by                    
First Line: Successive waves are thundering on your ear
Last Line: Record unflinching to eternal goals.


Successive waves are thundering on your ear
Along heroic line of raddled coast;
You sense the grappling battle year on year,

Relentless feud between incisive host
Of salt eroding seas and rock defiant,
Outer wave combing fast on innermost
To wear and scar the granite uncompliant --
Titans locked in siege without a truce --
Rock-broken wave, sea-scissored rocky giant.

Like to this duel of might, you fend abuse,
On Peter-rock, guard of our sea-girt souls,
Of onslaught and the depths that would seduce.
Calumny's writ is water; be our scrolls
Record unflinching to eternal goals.





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