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—And the Sea's voice replied, "Here noble things have been! "Power with the valiant when they died, "To sanctify the scene:

"Courage, in fragile form,   "Faith, trusting to the last, "Prayer, breathing heavenwards thro' the storm:   "But all alike have pass'd!"

Sound on, thou haughty Sea! These have not passed in vain; My soul awakes, my hope springs free On victor-wings again.

Thou, from thine empire driven, May'st vanish with thy powers; But, by the hearts that here have striven, A loftier doom is ours!