O! TO be
By the sea, the sea!
While a brave nor’wester’s blowing,
With a swirl on the lee,
Of cloud-foam free,
And a spring-tide deeply flowing!
With the low moon red and large,
O’er the flushed horizon’s marge,
And a little pink hand in mine,
On the sands in the long moonshine!
O! to be
By the sea, the sea!
With the wind full west and dying,
With a single star
O’er the misty bar,
And the dim waves dreamily sighing!
O! to be there, but there!
With my sweet love nestling near!
Near, near, till her heart-throbs blend with mine,
Through the balmy hush of the night’s decline,
On the glimmering beach, in the soft star-shine!
(Paul Hamilton Hayne)
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