The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
A CALM, SEASIDE SUNSET. |
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A CALM, SEASIDE SUNSET.
The Mightiest too is gentlest—the great SeaLies like a thing with which a child might play,
As a tame Lion, on whose back men lay
Their hands familiárly, as though he
Were never otherwise—Earth seems to be,
After day's labour, resting on her way,
Through the blue ether—on the closing day
Silence attends, as by the deathbed we
May watch of one we love—a ball of red
And fiery splendor yonder sets the sun,
Steeping all things in beauty: Heaven's vast hall
Is cloudless: sky and ocean round are spread,
In one unbroken Blank, leaving but one
Pervading sense of vastness over all!
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