History & Politics
XXI
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
History & Politics
She, first to love the light, and daughter
Incarnate of the northern dawn,
She, round whose feet the wild waves fawn
When all their wrath of warring water
Sounds like a babe's breath drawn,
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