Poems (Henley)/The full sea rolls and thunders

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The full sea rolls and thunders
 In glory and in glee.
O, bury me not in the senseless earth
 But in the living sea!

Ay, bury me where it surges
 A thousand miles from shore,
And in its brotherly unrest
 I'll range for evermore.

1876

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