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The hue of the sunset lingered in cloud and water, and in the pale heavens above the rose and purple shone the evening star The cloudlike ship at which we had gazed was gone into the distance and the twilight;her noshores stretched the Jahts upon the Esperance that lay between us and the town Aboard her theof the sea floated over the water to us, sweetly and like a love song We passed the ship unhailed, and glided on to the haven where ould be The singing behind us died away, but the song in our hearts kept on All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song ay, now plaintive, but it is deathless