Quote #51
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye? When did music come this way? Children dear, was it yesterday?
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- Singing, 'Here came a mortal, But faithless was she: And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea.'
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- Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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- Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.