[00:22.48]With short, sharp violent lights made vivid,
[00:29.94]To southward far as the sight can roam,
[00:35.90]Only the swirl of the surges livid,
[00:40.75]The seas that climb and the surfs that comb.
[00:45.08]Only the crag and the cliff to nor'ward,
[00:49.76]The rocks receding, and reefs flung forward,
[00:54.26]Waifs wreck'd seaward and wasted shoreward,
[01:00.18]On shallows sheeted with flaming foam.
[01:09.77]
[01:16.24]A grim, gray coast and a seaboard ghastly,
[01:21.26]And shores trod seldom by feet of men -
[01:26.47]Where the batter'd hull and the broken mast lie,
[01:31.08]They have lain embedded these long years ten.
[01:40.51]Love! Love! when we wandered here together,
[01:51.87]Hand in hand! Hand in hand through the sparkling weather,
[02:01.89]From the heights and hollows of fern and heather,
[02:18.03]God surely loved us a little then.
[02:30.60]
[02:34.06]The skies were fairer, the shores were firmer -
[02:41.91]The blue sea over the bright sand roll'd;
[02:49.86]Babble and prattle, and ripple and murmur,
[02:58.51]Sheen of silver and glamour of gold.
[03:09.44]Sheen of silver and glamour of gold.
[03:23.48]
[03:31.21]So, girt with tempest and wing'd with thunder
[03:38.81]And clad with lightning and shod with sleet,
[03:44.82]And strong winds treading the swift waves under
[03:49.35]The flying rollers with frothy feet.
[03:54.37]One gleam like a bloodshot sword-blade swims on
[03:59.16]The sky line, staining the green gulf crimson,
[04:03.93]A death-stroke fiercely dealt by a dim sun
[04:09.06]That strikes through his stormy winding sheet.
[04:21.38]O brave white horses! you gather and gallop,
[04:26.57]
[04:26.81]The storm sprite loosens the gusty rains;
[04:30.89]O brave white horses! you gather and gallop,
[04:35.88]The storm sprite loosens the gusty rains;
[04:41.88]Now the stoutest ship were the frailest shallop
[04:47.56]In your hollow backs, on your high-arched manes.
[04:52.39]I would ride as never man has ridden
[04:57.64]In your sleepy, swirling surges hidden;
[05:06.39]
[05:07.80]I would ride as never man has ridden
[05:15.82]To gulfs foreshadow'd through strifes forbidden,
[05:21.14]Where no light wearies and no love wanes.
[05:27.96]
[05:30.40]No love,
[05:32.64]Where no love, no love wanes.
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