– The world is wasted with fire and sword
But the apples of gold hang over the sea.-
When the wounded seaman heard the ocean daughters
With their dreamy call
Lull the stormy demon of the waters,
He remembered all.
He remembered
(Frederic Ridgely Torrence)
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