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Uniting lovingly the wave and sky, Like Hope content in its delight to die. A young queen with her maidens sat and sung While ocean thousands of sweet echoes flung, Delighted them to hear their voices blent With music from the murmuring element. Then cast they on the winds their radiant hair, Then gather'd of the pink shells those most rare, To gem their flying curls, that each might seem A Nereid risen from the briny stream. When sudden cried the queen, "Come, gaze with me At what may yonder in the distance be." All gather'd round. A little speck was seen, Like a mere shadow, on the billows green. Nearer and nearer, more distinct it grew, Till came a fragile vessel full in view;