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Lady of the White Castles

There, walking the blue border of the sea; Walking ocean's tremulous boundary, Between two half worlds, in her reign she roamed Amidst the gathering towers of foam Soft turning; the old pages of the sea Calling, till her calls pleasure came to be As the ocean sculpted a Kingdom grand, And high castles were raised on golden sand She stood, where sweet the flowing balm of tide; Where great spires of ocean foam rising high Oft she travelled 'cross the glittering shore Where winds from the east, cast white castles more They towered and gleamed in the morning sun; They lived but one breath, but oh in that one; In their passing empires of curling cloud, In their white maned ambition swelling proud; Rising to the courts of an earthern queen; Knowing heaven in the goddess they'd seen, They lived for her smile, then to green sea fell Home to the deep, of their lady to tell..

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