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 THE TWO TEACHERS.

hath her firesides, where the truant heart Comes back, to be forgiven, where the soft touch Of mother, or of sister, lures the boy, And tames his fierceness, where the unshap'd sound From infancy's fair lip, doth move the soul With thrill unspeakable. But the strong Sea Beareth no hearth-stone on his giant waves. He scorns the cadence of the nursery song, Nor with his erring children leaves a fault For Love's fond kiss to shrive. The hoarse reproof, The chronicle of wrecks; the lash of storms,