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Poems (Botta)/From De Vigny

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New York: G. P. Putnam and Company, page 38

FROM DE VIGNY.


Come on the sea, beloved,Fearless and free;Leave friends and wealth behind;Come, come with me.My bark on the water shinesA fairy thing;—See her pennon, mast, and keel!She is but a little shell,Yet there I am king.
The earth was made for the slave,Oh maiden free!But for man, the stern and brave,The boundless sea.The waves breathe in their flowA mystery,And tenderly they sing,In their soft murmuring,—Love, Liberty.