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A SEA-PRAYER by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

First Line: LORD OF WIND AND WATER
Last Line: SEA-LORD -- ALL ARE THINE.
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;
LORD of wind and water
Where the ships go down
Reaching to the sunrise,
Lifting like a crown,
Out of the deep-hidden
Wells of night and day --
Mind the great sea-farers
On the open way.
When the last lights darken
On the far coastline,
Wave and port and peril
Sea-Lord -- all are thine.



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