The sea cast round her like a mantle,

The sea-cloud like a crown?

XIX

The sea, divine as heaven and deathless,

Is hers, and none but only she

Hath learnt the sea's word, none but we

Her children hear in heart the breathless

Bright watchword of the sea.

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XX

Heard not of others, or misheard

Of many a land for many a year,

The watchword Freedom fails not here

Of hearts that witness if the word

Find faith in England's ear.

XXI

She, first to love the light, and daughter

Incarnate of the northern dawn,

She, round whose feet the wild waves fawn

When all their wrath of warring water

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