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By thine own lips, O Sea

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By thine own lips, O Sea

By thine own lips, O Sea, By As where day and night I wander on here on the beach To get Counting the tally of the surf‑suggestions wordless utterance of these liquid wordless tongues And To pass within my soul, which loves the  
 grim, mysterious, wordless
story,
That This haughty‑husky utterance of the sea—  
 that this unsubduedness,
That Thisy cosmic, ever‑latent voice of power, refusal With The lengthened swell, and The irrepressible rage, and the ^these emblems  
 many tears;these emblems,
Some vast heart, like a planet's, chained  
 and chafing there here,
Some primitive right withheld—some freedom‑lover  
 pent—some tyranny;
Within, within and deep, ^by thee by day and night, ^by thine own tongue lips O SeaO Sea! Surely some This chanted tale of elemental passion, With undertone of muffled lion roar, And skreel of whistling wind, and hiss of spray, Thisy Thy A The chanted chanted tale of elemental passion,  
 thisy haughty husky utterance
Thisy tale of subterranean toil and wrongs  
  Unf For once Seems here Cconfided to me
* To pass within my soul the  
 wordless lesson
Of all that power means Of freedom, action, [no handwritten text supplied here] in husky-haughty   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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