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hymn to the sea.
O know how all things change! Night's violet star
Bloomed red erewhile; and thou, Sea, wearest away
The glorious realm of a forgotten day,
But lay'st the pillars of a fairer far
Deep in thy caverned-bed; for all that ever
Gathered about it men's delight or love,
Or aught that simply blooms, or strives
To make more beautiful our lives,
In each new fabric of the world, is wove
Afresh, and changes like the light, but passes never.
Bloomed red erewhile; and thou, Sea, wearest away
The glorious realm of a forgotten day,
But lay'st the pillars of a fairer far
Deep in thy caverned-bed; for all that ever
Gathered about it men's delight or love,
Or aught that simply blooms, or strives
To make more beautiful our lives,
In each new fabric of the world, is wove
Afresh, and changes like the light, but passes never.
