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 Bearing you away from me,
 * Crying: “One must go alone!”
 * O that Voice, so like my own

Calling through the gloom for thee!—
 * For the love that life has known,

For the parting yet to be!
 * Now I shall go
 * Quite gladly, with this more than anguish at
 * My over-aching heart, that cries for rest:
 * Yes, shade-like even now I seem,—this face
 * Sea-worn as Leucothea’s lonely face,
 * So wistful white at eve amid the waves
 * Where with sad eyes, men say, she gazes on
 * Earth’s failing hills and fields!

(She turns once more to the sea.)
 * ’Tis good to sleep,
 * And alone, sad mother Ocean, let me lie;
 * Alone, gray mother, take me in your arms
 * Whose earthly sorrow once was deep as yours,
 * Whose passion was as vain, whose heart could sound
 * Thro’ all the sweetest meadows of this world
 * Only for evermore the morning lutes
 * Of loneliness and most unhappy love.
 * For once, in times I know not of, you too
 * Have loved and sorrowed, as your heart would say,
 * Mourning at dusk among your golden Isles.
 * I cannot call on mine old gods, for they