| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | In the Harbor | | The City and the Sea |
| | | THE PANTING City cried to the Sea, | |
| “I am faint with heat,—Oh breathe on me!” | |
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| And the Sea said, “Lo, I breathe! but my breath | |
| To some will be life, to others death!” | |
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| As to Prometheus, bringing ease | 5 |
| In pain, come the Oceanides, | |
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| So to the City, hot with the flame | |
| Of the pitiless sun, the east wind came. | |
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| It came from the heaving breast of the deep, | |
| Silent as dreams are, and sudden as sleep. | 10 |
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| Life-giving, death-giving, which will it be; | |
| O breath of the merciful, merciless Sea? | | | | |
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