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 THE MIRACLES

a message to my dear—

A thousand leagues and more to Her—

The dumb sea-levels thrilled to hear,

And Lost Atlantis bore to Her.

Behind my message hard I came,

And nigh had found a grave for me;

But that I launched of steel and flame

Did war against the wave for me.

Uprose the deep, by gale on gale,

To bid me change my mind again—

He broke his teeth along my rail,

And, roaring, swung behind again.

I stayed the sun at noon to tell

My way across the waste of it;

I read the storm before it fell

And made the better haste of it.

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