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 Ah, hark again! In a sadder strain
 * She is singing a song to me—
 * A song of the unseen sea;

She is singing of ships whose wrecks have lain
 * For ages in the sea,
 * In the depths of the sunless sea;

And her voice is soft with a thought of the pain
 * That song is giving to me.

A thought that I thought forever had lain
 * In the depths of the soundless sea

Is searching my soul in that mermaid's strain
 * And bringing a sorrow to me
 * From the world that is under the sea.

For I have a friend whose bones have lain
 * For ages in the sea,
 * (For so it seems to me),

And her song has opened that wound again
 * And brought back a sorrow to me—
 * From the depths of the endless sea.