A Sea Song
A stoney shore where green waves curl and break
In opalescent stars of foam, and shake
The golden silence with their siren song
Of strange sea-voices, calling all day long,
Seeming to say "Oh! mortal, come and sleep!
The world is full of tears, its ways are steep,
Come down before the future saddens thee
And sleep among the rainbows in the sea!"
There in the shadow of the cliff I lay
In the soft stillness of an autumn day,
Listened and dreamed until the little cares
That steal upon the spirit unawares . . .
In opalescent stars of foam, and shake
The golden silence with their siren song
Of strange sea-voices, calling all day long,
Seeming to say "Oh! mortal, come and sleep!
The world is full of tears, its ways are steep,
Come down before the future saddens thee
And sleep among the rainbows in the sea!"
There in the shadow of the cliff I lay
In the soft stillness of an autumn day,
Listened and dreamed until the little cares
That steal upon the spirit unawares . . .
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