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+------ Thema: How long I sail’d, and never took a thought (/showthread.php?tid=16620)
How long I sail’d, and never took a thought - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007
How long I sail’d, and never took a thought
To what port I was bound! Secure as sleep,
I dwelt upon the bosom of the deep
And perilous sea. And though my ship was fraught
With rare and precious fancies, jewels brought
From fairy-land, no course I cared to keep,
Nor changeful wind nor tide I heeded ought,
But joy’d to feel the merry billows leap,
And watch the sunbeams dallying with the waves;
Or haply dream what realms beneath may lie
Where the clear ocean is an emerald sky,
And mermaids warble in their coral caves,
Yet vainly woo me to their secret home; -
And sweet it were for ever so to roam.