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embarking turns deep-visioned eyes
 * Back to his fast-receding native shore,
 * Whose crystal tides shall ebb and flow no more

For him, or sound their silver harmonies; And there beholds how all the landscape lies
 * Transfigured with a charm it never wore
 * In those indifferent early days before

He faced the loneliness of foreign skies;

So earth becomes, to eyes bedimmed with tears
 * Of that impending change whose silent knell

Sounds at the heart of slowly-waning years
 * (Even to those who always loved it well),

Transfigured with a charm that more endears,
 * And touched with beauty indescribable.