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Gayly we glide in the gaze of the world
With streamers afloat and with canvas unfurled,
All gladness and glory to wandering eyes,
Yet chartered by sorrow and freighted with sighs.

— Thomas Kibble Hervey

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Ships that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.

Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.

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The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.

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A love that took an early root,
And had an early doom.

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He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer’s eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute.

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