_The coastline ranges far, the skies unfold; The mountains rise in glory, stair on stair; The darting Sun seeks Daphne as of old In thickets dark where laurel blooms are fair. The ancient sea, deep wrinkled, ever young, With salt lip kisses still the silver strand; In caverns dwell the Nymphs, their loves among, And Titans still with strange fire shake the land._ _A thousand generations here have come, And wandered o’er these hills, and faced the light; A thousand times slight man from mortal womb Has leapt, and lapsed again into the night. Here tribesmen dwelt, and fought, and curst their star, And scoured both land and sea to s…
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