Slide softly on as in an echoing cave

And with the whisper of the unseen shores

Mingle their music, till the bell of night

Murmurs reverberations low and deep

That droop towards the land in swooning flight

Like whispers from the lazy lips of sleep.

The oars grow faint. Below the cloud-dim hill

The shadows fade and now the bay is still.

Edward Shanks

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