Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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AT LYNMOUTH
Sunny sky o'er sunny sea,
Tiny waves that ripple in,
Where beside the little quay
Rattles down the noisy Lyn;
Rugged rocks that overhead
Blend and blazon every hue,
Glowing purple, blushing red
At the sea's diviner blue;
Did your pencil ever paint,
Any picture half as quaint,
Half as lovely, half as sweet,
Marguerite?
Tiny waves that ripple in,
Where beside the little quay
Rattles down the noisy Lyn;
Rugged rocks that overhead
Blend and blazon every hue,
Glowing purple, blushing red
At the sea's diviner blue;
Did your pencil ever paint,
Any picture half as quaint,
Half as lovely, half as sweet,
Marguerite?
Deep sequestered, tree-begirt,
In the vale the village sleeps,
Fenced around and screened from hurt
By the crag-surmounted steeps;
Under eaves white roses smile,
Gable-high the fuchsia climbs,
Ruddy-tinted roofs of tile
Peep from out the leafy limes;
Of all Edens 'neath the sun,
Found or fancied, is there one
More enchanting, more complete,
Marguerite?
In the vale the village sleeps,
Fenced around and screened from hurt
By the crag-surmounted steeps;
Under eaves white roses smile,
Gable-high the fuchsia climbs,
Ruddy-tinted roofs of tile
Peep from out the leafy limes;
Of all Edens 'neath the sun,
Found or fancied, is there one
More enchanting, more complete,
Marguerite?
Let us wander hand in hand
Out of shadow into light,
View the beauties of the land
From this bare unwooded height;
Hill and valley, rock and rill,
All in rich profusion lie,
Rock and river, vale and hill
Stretched before the dazzled eye;
Could the storied Isles of Bliss
Shew a scene as fair as this
Here unfolded at our feet,
Marguerite?
Out of shadow into light,
View the beauties of the land
From this bare unwooded height;
Hill and valley, rock and rill,
All in rich profusion lie,
Rock and river, vale and hill
Stretched before the dazzled eye;
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Shew a scene as fair as this
Here unfolded at our feet,
Marguerite?
Now descending let us pass
Far from sight and sound of men,
Where the fern and scented grass
Carpet soft the shaded glen;
Where the river in its flow,
Leaping down with merry glee,
Finds a sister stream, and, lo!
Greets and bears her to the sea.
Lovely spot! who would not stay,
Learning all the live-long day
Lessons from this “waters-meet,”
Marguerite?
Far from sight and sound of men,
Where the fern and scented grass
Carpet soft the shaded glen;
Where the river in its flow,
Leaping down with merry glee,
Finds a sister stream, and, lo!
Greets and bears her to the sea.
Lovely spot! who would not stay,
Learning all the live-long day
Lessons from this “waters-meet,”
Marguerite?
July 1876.
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