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Rh I dreamed to wait my pleasure

Unchanged my spring would bide:

Wherefore, to wait my pleasure,

I put my spring aside

Till, first in face of Fortune,

And last in mazed disdain,

I made Diego Valdez

High Admiral of Spain.

Then walked no wind 'neath Heaven

Nor surge that did not aid—

I dared extreme occasion,

Nor ever one betrayed,

They wrought a deeper treason—

(Led seas that served my needs!)

They sold Diego Valdez

To bondage of great deeds.

The tempest flung me seaward,

And pinned and bade me hold

The course I might not alter—

And men esteemed me bold!