The City and the Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * Track #12 On In The Harbor
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- #11Elegiac Verse
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- #12The City and the Sea
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- #13Memories
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- #14Hermes Trismegistus
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The City and the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe City and the Sea Annotated
The panting City cried to the Sea,
"I am faint with heat,—O breathe on me!"
And the Sea said, "Lo, I breathe! but my breath
To some will be life, to others death!"
As to Prometheus, bringing ease
In pain, come the Oceanides,
So to the City, hot with the flame
Of the pitiless sun, the east wind came.
It came from the heaving breast of the deep,
Silent as dreams are, and sudden as sleep.
Life-giving, death-giving, which will it be;
O breath of the merciful, merciless Sea?