The night is lamped with powerful beauty,
and the oaks tremble with strange song.
Ancestral seas tide to our windows,
and the round government burns at our eyes.
Inheriting hands turn these sea-wet pages,
and stroke this raging reaching mind
that rides the unexplored expanse
in rich black evocating vessels.
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