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The roaring tumult of the billowed sea Awakes him not: high on the crested surge, Now heaved, his locks flowed streaming to the blast: And now descending, ’tween the sheltering waves, The falling tresses veil the face divine: Meek through that veil, a momentary gleam, Benignant shines; he dreams that he beholds The opening eyes,—that hopeless long had rolled In darkness,—look around bedimmed with tears Of joy; but suddenly the voice of fear Dispelled the happy vision. Awful he rose, Rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, “Peace, be thou still!” and straight there was a calm. With terror-mingled gladness in their looks, The mariners exclaim—“What man is this, That even the wind and sea obey his voice?”
The roaring tumult of the billowed sea Awakes him not: high on the crested surge, Now heaved, his locks flowed streaming to the blast: And now descending, ’tween the sheltering waves, The falling tresses veil the face divine: Meek through that veil, a momentary gleam, Benignant shines; he dreams that he beholds The opening eyes,—that hopeless long had rolled In darkness,—look around bedimmed with tears Of joy; but suddenly the voice of fear Dispelled the happy vision. Awful he rose, Rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, “Peace, be thou still!” and straight there was a calm. With terror-mingled gladness in their looks, The mariners exclaim—“What man is this, That even the wind and sea obey his voice?”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Grahame (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 98 · printed citation: Grahame · subject: CALMNESS
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