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The Inlander

I never climb a high hill

Or gaze across the lea,

But, Oh, beyond the two of them,

Beyond the height and blue of them,

I'm looking for the sea.

A blue sea--a crooning sea--

A grey sea lashed with foam--

But, Oh, to take the drift of it,

To know the surge and lift of it,

And 'tis I am longing for it as the homeless long for home.

I never dream at night-time

Or close my eyes by day,

But there I have the might of it,

The wind-whipped, sun-drenched sight of it,

That calls my soul away.

Oh, deep dreams and happy dreams,

Its dreaming still I'd be,

For still the land I'm waking in,

'Tis that my heart is breaking in,

And 'tis far where I'd be sleeping with the blue waves over me.