The Home Circle
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“BY THE SEA
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I think, as the white sails come and go. Of the welcomes loud and the farewells low j Of the meeting lips and the parting tears, Of the new-born hopes and the growing fears, Of the eyes that glow, and the cheeks that pale, As the hazy horizon’s mystic veil Is silently parted, and to and fro The white sails come and the white sails go. And a grey mist gathers, and all grows dim As I watch alone by the ocean’s rim. For a dream is mine—ah me ! ah me ! That salt with tears is the salt salt sea. O, yearning eyes and outstretched hands ! O, divided lives and divided lands ! As long as the waters ebb and flow Shall the white sails come and the white sails go-”
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 16, 21 July 1894, Page 3
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140The Home Circle Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 16, 21 July 1894, Page 3
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