An hour of peril in thy Lydstep caves:
Down the steep gorge, grotesquely boulder-piled
And tempest-worn, as Ocean hurrying wild
Up it in thunder breaks and vainly raves,—
My haste hath sped me to the rippled sand,
Where, arching deep, o’erhang on either hand
These halls of Amphitrite, echoing clear
The ceaseless mournful music of the waves:
Ten thousand beauteous forms of life are here;
And long I linger, wandering in and out
Among the sea-flowers tapestried about
All over these wet walls: a shout of fear,—
The tide, the tide! — I turn’d and ran for life,—
And battled safely through that billowy strife!
(Martin Farquhar Tupper)
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