Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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BY THE SEASHORE.
Upon the reedy margin of the shore,
Shallow and waste, I stand,
And hear far Ocean's low continuous roar
Over the flats and sand.
Shallow and waste, I stand,
And hear far Ocean's low continuous roar
Over the flats and sand.
The wide gray sky hangs low above the verge,
No white-winged sea-bird flies;
No sound, save the eternal-sounding surge,
With equal fall and rise.
No white-winged sea-bird flies;
No sound, save the eternal-sounding surge,
With equal fall and rise.
While the salt sea-wind whispers in my ears,
Fitful and desolate,
I seem absolved from the departed years,
Not grieved and not elate.
Fitful and desolate,
I seem absolved from the departed years,
Not grieved and not elate.
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