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'In My Dreams I see a Castle'
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'O western wind! O wandering wave! seek Southern summer seas,
Bear him my bleeding heart from these far Northern castle-leas,
And tell him I love him now much better than all these.'
But the heart was passion-weighted—passion still unpurged of pride—
On the bosom of the billows it could not safely ride;
It never reach'd those summer seas, but sank beneath the tide.
The lady wanders still beside the dreary Northern sea,
And cries unto the wind and waves: 'Give back my heart to me.'
But the wind and waves make answer: 'That can never, never be.'
