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 She is haunting and holding my heart with a strain, Where joy lies asleep in the shadow of pain;
 * And the world that is under the sea

Is spreading its pleasures and treasures to gain
 * The love that lies dormant in me—
 * The love that I bear for the sea,
 * For the secret and sorrowful sea;

Is luring my feet from the gray land again And filling my soul with the scent of the main,
 * The sound and the scent of the sea;

And the speech of the siren is spoken in vain,
 * For that mermaid is singing to me
 * Of the world that is under the sea;

And the love that I bear for the ocean again,
 * For the mournful and mutable sea.
 * Has taken possession of me;

My heart is enmeshed in the mystical strain
 * That mermaid is singing to me
 * Of the world that lies under the sea.