PLAYFULLY plashing upon the smooth beach,
Giving your music my musings to teach,
Helping my spirit your Maker to preach ;
Wavelets, come speak here and rest here.
Bare-footed, joining the wavelets in play,
Building new castles in sand every day,
Watching the fishing-boats leaving the bay ;
Innocent children, God keep you.
Picnicking close by the sea, on the lawn,
Gladly awhile from the city withdrawn,
Soon to return feeling fresh as the dawn ;
Workers take now recreation.
Lighthouse of Wollongong, graceful and tall,
Shelter’d and peaceful within thy sea-wall,
Warning the sailors when breakers appal ;
Faithful, thou showest the danger.
Full-orb’d o’er tranquil seas, moveth the moon ;
Lo, there comes full-sailed, in light bright as noon,
Barque-rigged a vessel which passes too soon :
Out of the line of the moon-shine.
Marvellous Ocean-path ! Lustrous the scene !
Silverned and shining beneath the night’s queen,
Gleaming in level line, pale and serene,
Glittering from beach to horizon.
(Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine)
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