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BY LÓPEZ MALDONADO.

SONNET.

Out from the sea they issue and return

Unto its bosom when their course is o'er,

As to the All-Mother they return once more,

The children who have left her long forlorn.

She is not lesser made whene'er they go,

Nor prouder when their presence they restore;

For she remaineth whole from shore to shore,

And with her waters aye her pools o'erflow.

Thou art the sea, oh Galatea fair!

The rivers are thy praises, the reward

Whereby thou winnest immortality.

The more thou givest to us, thou canst spare

The more; though all before thy feet have poured

Their tribute, yet thou canst not greater be.