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Themes and Variations
Then again the forest thunders!
And the seaward voices swell,
And the storm flings wide the portal
For some guest invisible.
And the seaward voices swell,
And the storm flings wide the portal
For some guest invisible.
When the silver lamp is lighted,
And your mother’s picture there,
Looks and listens to our voices
With her fond protecting air.
And your mother’s picture there,
Looks and listens to our voices
With her fond protecting air.
Thus if we could sit together—
Ah, that dream may never be!
Come, wild equinoctial tempest,
I will wander forth with thee!
Ah, that dream may never be!
Come, wild equinoctial tempest,
I will wander forth with thee!