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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: From The Lips of the Sea + +Author: Clinton Scollard + + +Release Date: March, 2005 [EBook #7784] +This file was first posted on May 16, 2003 +Last Updated: May 7, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + + + +FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA + + +By Clinton Scollard + + + + +CONTENTS + + + SEA MARVELS + THE MIST AND THE SEA + DIRGE FOR A SAILOR + BAG-PIPES AT SEA + THE WIND AND THE SEA + THE TIDES + A SEA ROVER + THE MIST BARQUE + A SEA SHELL + NIGHT SONG BY THE SEA + WILD GEESE + A SEA CHANGE + SAINT SEPULCHRE'S BESIDE THE SEA + SEA LYRICS + DAWN, THE HARVESTER + THE LILAC SEA + A SAILOR AMID THE HILLS + SUMMER BY THE SEA + DUSK AT SEA + THE SPEECH OF THE SEA + NIGHT BY THE SEA + AUTUMN BY THE SEA + MIST AT SEA + A SEA SCENE + MOONRISE BY THE SEA + A SEA SONG + A SYMPHONY OF THE SEA + + + + _If thou wouldst win the rhythmic heart of things, + Go sit in solitude beside the shore, + Giving thine ear to the eternal roar + And every mystic message that it brings;-- + Eddas of ancient, unremembered kings, + And runes that ring with long-forgotten lore, + All myths and mysteries from the years of yore + Ere Time grew weary on his journeyings. + + And more from that imperious sibyl, Sea, + Thou mayest learn if thou wilt hearken well, + When God's white star-fires beacon home the ships; + The solemn secrets of infinity, + Unto the inner sense translatable, + Hang trembling ever on her darkling lips._ + + + + +SEA MARVELS + + + This morning more mysterious seems the sea + Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, + It charged upon the beaches, and the sky + Above it shimmered cloudless. Now the waves + Lap languorously along the foamless sand, + And till the far horizon swims in mist. + Out of this murk, across this oily sweep, + Might lost armadas grandly sail to shore; + Jason might oar on Argo, or the stern + Surge-wanderer from Ithaca's bleak isle + Break on the sight, or Viking prows appear, + And still not waken wonder. Aye, the sound + Of siren singing might drift o'er the main, + And yet not fall upon amazèd ears! + The soul is ripe for marvels. O great deep, + Give up your host of stately presences, + Adventurers and sea-heroes of old time, + And let them pass before us down the day + In proud procession, so that we who hear + Dull bells mark off the uneventful hours + May glimpse the bygone bravery of the world + Now moiling in its multitudinous marts, + Forgetful of fair faith and high resolve + In the inglorious grapple after gold! + + + + +THE MIST AND THE SEA + + + The mist crept in from the sea + Out of the void and the vast; + And it bore the silver rain + A shimmering guest in its train, + And many a murmuring strain + Of the ships that sailed in the past; + Soft as sleep's footfalls be + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea + And folded the length of the shore + In the clasp of its mothering arms + As though it would shield from harms; + And lulled were the loud alarms, + And lost was the rage and roar + Of the surge, so soothingly + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea, + White, impalpable, strange; + Pull of the wafture of wings, + Of eerie and eldritch things, + Of visions and vanishings + Ever in shift and change; + Silently, hauntingly, + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea, + And bode for a space, and then + It heard the imperious call + Of the deep, transcending all, + And it knew itself as the thrall + Of the world-old master of men, + So, still as the dreams that flee, + The mist crept back to the sea. + + + + +DIRGE FOR A SAILOR + + Beyond the bourns of time and sleep, + Beyond the sway of tides, + A voyager o'er death's darksome deep, + His ship at anchor rides. + + He who from boyhood never knew + A garden save the foam, + Whose only rooftree was the blue, + At last has found a home. + + And what more fit than that the wave + He loved through life to stem + Should sing above his green sea grave + This sailor's requiem! + + + + +BAG-PIPES AT SEA + + + Above the shouting of the gale, + The whipping sheet, the dashing spray, + I heard, with notes of joy and wail, + A piper play. + + Along the dipping deck he trod, + The dusk about his shadowy form; + He seemed like some strange ancient god + Of song and storm. + + He gave his dim-seen pipes a skirl + And war went down the darkling air; + Then came a sudden subtle swirl, + And love was there. + + What were the winds that flailed and flayed + The sea to him, the night obscure? + In dreams he strayed some brackened glade, + Some heathery moor. + + And if he saw the slanting spars, + And if he watched the shifting track, + He marked, too, the eternal stars + Shine through the wrack. + + And so amid the deep sea din, + And so amid the wastes of foam, + Afar his heart was happy in + His highland home! + + + + +THE WIND AND THE SEA + + + Never the long wind dieth, + Never, never, + But sigheth, crieth, + In its old endeavor, + Where the shifting sand and shingle + Meet and mingle, + And the lifting land and the surge of the waters sever! + + Never the long wind faileth. + Never, never, + But still availeth + In its old endeavor; + Mortals, the changeful-hearted, + May be parted, + But the wind and the sea are wedded forever and ever! + + + + +THE TIDES + + + Through rush and reed + The long, strong tides recede, + Jostle and surge, + And toss and urge, + And foam and merge, + Where lily roots shine bright like bronzen brede. + + "Haste! haste!" + That is their cry; + Back to the mother waste + They fleet, they fly, + Again to be embraced-- + Again to be a part + Of that great heart! + + As set the tides, so we, + After the stress and roar + Along life's shore, + Shall one day set toward the eternal sea! + + + + +A SEA ROVER + + + The breakers dash, the breakers boom, + Upon the beaches ceaselessly; + Beyond the line of flying spume + Stretch weltering wastes of sea. + + There gray gulls hold their loud carouse, + The four great winds rejoice or mourn, + There go deep barques, with plunging prows, + On far adventures borne. + + That one, with streaming pennon, seeks + The golden gates that guard the morn, + That one the perilous island peaks + Beyond the stormy Horn. + + My fancy sails with each and all, + Unleashed, untrammeled, unconfined; + There is no bond, there is no thrall, + Can chain the roving mind! + + + +THE MIST BARQUE + + + Over the wave-rim faint and far + (Spectral sail and ghostly spar) + Through the mist-banks a vessel glides + Biding the ridge of the tossing tides. + + Is it Van der Deeken again, + Scourge of the sea, with his evil men, + Come to wreak some murky spell + Out of the yawn of the gulfs of Hell? + + Thus it seems that the craft might be, + With its shifting shroud of mystery, + Forth from the unknown weirdly cast, + Into the unknown fading fast. + + Now no sign of it near or far, + Spectral sail or ghostly spar! + Yet shall I dream of it shudderingly, + Vanished, eldritch ship of the sea, + + Fearful lest some barque be borne + In wake of the wraith (ah, hearts that mourn!) + Through the power of its fatal spell + Into the yawn of the gulfs of Hell. + + + + +A SEA SHELL + + + You speak to me + Of the long plunge and welter of the sea; + Likewise you are + Oracular + Of its low melody. + You voice its laughing moods, + Its lyric interludes, + Its secrecies, its sorceries, its mysteries, + Its tragic histories. + Aye, all that it has breathed, may breathe, shall breathe, + You unto me bequeath; + Thus am I made the fair inheritor + Of that rare essence of true harmony + Which many a land-girt exile hungers for,-- + The sea! + + + + +NIGHT SONG BY THE SEA + + + Wind and rain are at the pane, + Shrilling, drumming without cease; + And the breakers' loud refrain + Gives the shuddering heart no peace. + Lord of all the things that be, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + Snugly roofed with warmth and glow, + And encompassed soft by sleep, + Little we land-dwellers know + Of the terrors of the deep. + Lord, in Thy sweet charity, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + On the smiling face of morn + Sure are we to gaze again; + What of those poor waifs forlorn + Furrowing the untracked main? + Lord, in their dire need of Thee, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + Although riven be the rail, + Snapped the shroud and rent the mast, + May they into harbor sail, + All their perils overpast! + Lord, in Thy compassion, be + Pilot to the souls at sea! + + + + +WILD GEESE + + + Along the ocean's shingly edge, + Athwart the turquoise sweep of sky, + The wild geese in a winged wedge + Go darkling by. + + From far lagoons be-plumed with palm, + By cove and cape, by bluff and bay, + Through depths of storm, through vasts of calm, + They speed their way. + + The pharos flashes on their flight; + They do not heed its beckoning beam; + The great North, stretching weird and white, + Lures like a dream; + + Lures, and they answer to the call; + Charms, and they yield them to the spell, + Moved ever by a subtle thrall + Inscrutable. + + Do you not feel it, comrade, too, + The inescapable delight, + The mounting rapture, that bids you + Take vernal flight? + + + + +A SEA CHANGE + + + Night-long I heard the poignant undertone, + The interminable sobbing of the sea; + And now that morn breaks dim and dolorously + I mark the riotous surges landward blown, + Tempestuous and towering, and hurled prone + Upon the stark sand reaches; and the glee + Of the mad wind, its maniac monody, + Mingles with ocean's dithyrambic moan. + + Not so yestreen, when westward flamed the sun, + Flinging athwart the waves a lustrous path, + Tinging the sky with colors rich and strange! + The black night wrought this mystery of wrath, + This mood demonic (reason seems there none), + This weird and inexplicable sea change! + + + + +SAINT SEPULCHRE'S BESIDE THE SEA + + + The new moon marked the twilight hour, + A night-jar quavered eerily, + And swallows circled round the tower-- + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + The ivy clung, the ivy climbed, + The wilding rose twined tenderly, + And Time, the overlord, sublimed + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + Below, the surge, the solemn surge, + Murmured and moaned unceasingly, + For all its golden past a dirge-- + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + And love and hate were here as one; + Life blent with death harmoniously; + 'Twas beauty in oblivion-- + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea! + + + + +SEA LYRICS + +I + + + We heard the breakers clash and boom; + We saw them plunge and writhe and rise, + And toss great flakes of ashen spume + High toward the ashen skies. + + Out of the welter of the east + One gaunt barque like a spectre bore; + The mad wind trumpeted, then ceased, + Then trumpeted once more. + + A mist crept landward, the spent wraith + Of tempests raging far a-lee; + Then day died like an outworn faith, + And night fell on the sea. + + +II + + + O'erhead, the iridescence of the stars, + Ray blending softly with refulgent ray; + Below, above the harbor's hidden bars, + The crumbling iridescence of the spray. + + Before, a beacon flashing level lines, + Seemingly poised upon the far sea-verge; + Behind, the night wind in the oaks and pines, + Crooning in answer to the crooning surge. + + + + +DAWN, THE HARVESTER + + + The purple sky has blanched to blue + With freaks and streaks of rose and fawn, + While on the rolling meads of sea + Gleam the gold footsteps of the Dawn. + + What harvest, think you, will he find + Whither he sets his feet to roam? + Upon that boundless beryl plain + Only the lilies of the foam! + + + + +THE LILAC SEA + + + A cool wind took me by the hand + And led me on beguilingly, + Until before me, broad and bland, + Shimmered the lilac sea. + + Great gulls, with mauve upon their wings, + And cries that lingered hauntingly, + Hovered, with graceful flutterings, + Above the lilac sea. + + The curving shore-line had the gleam + Of amethyst; it seemed to me + The ships were all like ships of dream + Upon the lilac sea. + + And naught was real, or near or far, + And yet I have the memory + Of twilight, and the vesper star, + Hung o'er the lilac sea. + + + + +A SAILOR AMID THE HILLS + + + What does he hear in dreams? The surging wind, + Its long-drawn cadence, its wild harmony, + A mighty harp of infinite strings designed, + Whose sound to him seems sweet immeasurably? + Nay, nay, but through the spaces of his mind, + Plangent or pleading, loud or low-defined, + The ever-haunting murmur of the sea! + + + + +SUMMER BY THE SEA + + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of surge-profundos chanted o'er and o'er; + Of ancient wrath and immemorial glee, + And of the ships that sailed and come no more. + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of half-forgotten runes made long ago, + Of moon-wrought marvel and of mystery, + Of glamor--of the glow and after-glow. + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of subtleties of change, of strange unrest; + Of dreams unfathomable that form and flee + Like drifts of mist above the ocean's breast. + + + + +DUSK AT SEA + + + Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends + Upon the beryl bosom of the sea, + And in the sky's serene immensity, + Where the impalpable rose of sunset blends + With pearl and purple, shine the sailor's friends, + God's blessed beacons twinkling timorously, + Then brighter, each in its divine degree, + To where the enrapt range of vision ends. + + When dusk droops dark o'er life's uncertain seas, + Closing our day, deep-shadowing the sun, + And we go forth across death's pathless foam, + May we have stars more stedfast e'en than these,-- + Burning above, for us to gaze upon, + Both light and guide on the long journey home. + + + + +THE SPEECH OF THE SEA + + + All yesterday the sea was sapphire fair, + And the waves told, with little rippling glees, + Of ships that sailed, and then returned to bear + Their golden argosies. + + But ah, to-day the sea is ashen gray, + And ceaselessly has sobbed unto the shore + Of those ill-fated barques that sailed away + And came again no more! + + + + +NIGHT BY THE SEA + + + I woke in the black watches of the night + And heard the low intoning of the main, + A muffled heart-beat, an unceasing strain + Of music keyed to dolor and delight. + Now sorrow seemed ascendent, now the height + Of rapture beat in the sublime refrain, + Until the whole world's happiness and pain + Had echoed utterance while the dark took flight. + + Then in the sound of that reiterant surge + I marked my own life's flux of bliss and woe-- + Grief's long drawn sigh and joy's exultant call; + Till borne by dreams beyond the vast sea verge + I touched those shores the blest immortals know + Where youth and love have triumph over all. + + + + +AUTUMN BY THE SEA + + + Still on the sand and shingle gleams the sun; + Still an unclouded heaven arches o'er; + And still the languid billows roll and run + Down all the lengths of shore. + + Still there are hints of summer in the air, + A sense of restfulness, of rapt repose; + And from remote sea gardens, lush and fair, + Rich attars like the rose. + + Still a soft haze of delicate hyacinth + Broods o'er the sky-line, floating faint and far; + Still on the edge of night's vast labyrinth + Shines the clear vesper-star. + + Soon, all too soon, the spindrift and the spume, + The legions of the surge that fleetly form; + The gray, illimitable wastes of gloom-- + The thunderous caves of storm! + + + + +MIST AT SEA + + + The sea was mist-enwreathed at morn, + A void unspeakably forlorn; + Yet from the seeming barren gloom + Beauty, the dream of the world, was born. + + A sudden wafture of wind breath, + And lo, sun glories none gainsaith! + Thus shall the wings of the soul emerge + White from the chrysalis of death. + + + + +A SEA SCENE + + + From rim to shimmering rim the sea + Is burnished like chalcedony. + + The waves that set their lips to land + Scarce make a murmur on the sand. + + The ships appear to poise between + Two voids of opalescent sheen. + + Aye, here eternal calm seems set + In bland beatitude, and yet + + A single potent hour, aye, less, + Can change this placid loveliness, + + And cause, where life smiles fair and fain, + The raging demon death to reign! + + + + +MOONRISE BY THE SEA + + + Over the sea-rim peered the pallid moon + Out of a woven shroud + Of twilight purple, while their mighty tune + The breakers thundered loud. + + No comrade star, only the mystery + Of that pale orb whose fire + Through immemorial nights has seemed to be + Fulfilled of dim desire. + + And while its wan light drenched the foam-hid coasts, + To the low south wind's sigh + Methought the sad innumerable hosts + Of lovers dead went by; + + And I was whelmed with sadness, with the sense + Of the immutable pathos of the years, + And how the sum of all love's opulence + Must be obscured by tears! + + + + +A SEA SONG + + + Dolphins under and sea-gulls over + The surge and shift of the dipping tide, + And you, my rover, my blithe sea-rover, + Sailing the path of the undenied. + + In dreams I follow you, O my rover, + Wide, for the ways of the sea are wide; + Come back, come back when the voyage is over,-- + Back to the heart of the long denied! + + + + +A SYMPHONY OF THE SEA + +(GLOZE ROYAL) + + + _The surges sing in ceaseless monotone + The songs and sagas of the long-ago; + Many and mournful are the memories blown + Across the tireless tides that ebb and flow._ + + Lo, he who walks beside the wide sea-shore, + And sees the waves unbreasted by the oar, + And lets his thoughts repose on days long flown, + Will slowly o'er his dreamy vision feel + A sweetly lingering sadness softly steal, + And he will pause and listen to the moan + The iterant billows make upon the sand; + And all will seem to him a slumber-land, + Where, through the long night-watches dim and lone, + _The surges sing in ceaseless monotone!_ + + And in his ear the glorious myths of yore + With all the rhythmic burdens that they bore, + Will be retold, replete with joy and woe;-- + Ulysses' voyage will ring with epic peal, + And the strange tale of Argo's wandering keel; + Of high-banked Tyrian galleys will he know, + Of Roman triremes, and of many a band + The Vikings led from their far norland strand;-- + Stories of strife and love in shine and snow, + _The songs and sagas of the long-ago._ + + And there will rise within him, more and more, + The strong desire to learn the utmost lore + The great sea holds, that unto none is shown; + And he will cry and bid the deep unseal + Its sacred secrets, and to him reveal + What stern power rules it from what unseen throne. + But no vast shape will show a regnant hand, + Unless, perchance, wan Sorrow by him stand; + From Sorrow's pale, across the seas unsown, + _Many and mournful are the memories blown._ + + O thou that hast, from decades gone before, + Of bitter and of sweet the fullest store, + Immeasurable sea,--in gloom and glow + Our joy, our terror and our love,--we kneel + At thy dark altar with a vain appeal; + Within thy mighty bosom, far below, + Lie hid the mysteries of Him who planned + The circling spheres that wheel at His command;-- + Ah, Sea of Life, to one sure port we go + _Across the tireless tides that ebb and flow!_ + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's From The Lips of the Sea, by Clinton Scollard + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA *** + +***** This file should be named 7784-8.txt or 7784-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/7/7/8/7784/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: From The Lips of the Sea + +Author: Clinton Scollard + + +Release Date: March, 2005 [EBook #7784] +This file was first posted on May 16, 2003 +Last Updated: May 7, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA *** + + + + +Text file produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + +HTML file produced by David Widger + + + + +</pre> + + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA + </h1> + <h2> + By Clinton Scollard + </h2> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p> + <b>CONTENTS</b> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0001"> SEA MARVELS </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> THE MIST AND THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> DIRGE FOR A SAILOR </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> BAG-PIPES AT SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0005"> THE WIND AND THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0006"> THE TIDES </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0007"> A SEA ROVER </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0008"> A SEA SHELL </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0009"> NIGHT SONG BY THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0010"> WILD GEESE </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0011"> A SEA CHANGE </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0012"> SAINT SEPULCHRE'S BESIDE THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> SEA LYRICS </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0014"> DAWN, THE HARVESTER </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> THE LILAC SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0016"> A SAILOR AMID THE HILLS </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0017"> SUMMER BY THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0018"> DUSK AT SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0019"> THE SPEECH OF THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0020"> NIGHT BY THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0021"> AUTUMN BY THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0022"> MIST AT SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0023"> A SEA SCENE </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0024"> MOONRISE BY THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0025"> A SEA SONG </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0026"> A SYMPHONY OF THE SEA </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + <i>If thou wouldst win the rhythmic heart of things, + Go sit in solitude beside the shore, + Giving thine ear to the eternal roar + And every mystic message that it brings;— + Eddas of ancient, unremembered kings, + And runes that ring with long-forgotten lore, + All myths and mysteries from the years of yore + Ere Time grew weary on his journeyings. + + And more from that imperious sibyl, Sea, + Thou mayest learn if thou wilt hearken well, + When God's white star-fires beacon home the ships; + The solemn secrets of infinity, + Unto the inner sense translatable, + Hang trembling ever on her darkling lips.</i> +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SEA MARVELS + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + This morning more mysterious seems the sea + Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, + It charged upon the beaches, and the sky + Above it shimmered cloudless. Now the waves + Lap languorously along the foamless sand, + And till the far horizon swims in mist. + Out of this murk, across this oily sweep, + Might lost armadas grandly sail to shore; + Jason might oar on Argo, or the stern + Surge-wanderer from Ithaca's bleak isle + Break on the sight, or Viking prows appear, + And still not waken wonder. Aye, the sound + Of siren singing might drift o'er the main, + And yet not fall upon amazèd ears! + The soul is ripe for marvels. O great deep, + Give up your host of stately presences, + Adventurers and sea-heroes of old time, + And let them pass before us down the day + In proud procession, so that we who hear + Dull bells mark off the uneventful hours + May glimpse the bygone bravery of the world + Now moiling in its multitudinous marts, + Forgetful of fair faith and high resolve + In the inglorious grapple after gold! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + THE MIST AND THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The mist crept in from the sea + Out of the void and the vast; + And it bore the silver rain + A shimmering guest in its train, + And many a murmuring strain + Of the ships that sailed in the past; + Soft as sleep's footfalls be + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea + And folded the length of the shore + In the clasp of its mothering arms + As though it would shield from harms; + And lulled were the loud alarms, + And lost was the rage and roar + Of the surge, so soothingly + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea, + White, impalpable, strange; + Pull of the wafture of wings, + Of eerie and eldritch things, + Of visions and vanishings + Ever in shift and change; + Silently, hauntingly, + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea, + And bode for a space, and then + It heard the imperious call + Of the deep, transcending all, + And it knew itself as the thrall + Of the world-old master of men, + So, still as the dreams that flee, + The mist crept back to the sea. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + DIRGE FOR A SAILOR + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Beyond the bourns of time and sleep, + Beyond the sway of tides, + A voyager o'er death's darksome deep, + His ship at anchor rides. + + He who from boyhood never knew + A garden save the foam, + Whose only rooftree was the blue, + At last has found a home. + + And what more fit than that the wave + He loved through life to stem + Should sing above his green sea grave + This sailor's requiem! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + BAG-PIPES AT SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Above the shouting of the gale, + The whipping sheet, the dashing spray, + I heard, with notes of joy and wail, + A piper play. + + Along the dipping deck he trod, + The dusk about his shadowy form; + He seemed like some strange ancient god + Of song and storm. + + He gave his dim-seen pipes a skirl + And war went down the darkling air; + Then came a sudden subtle swirl, + And love was there. + + What were the winds that flailed and flayed + The sea to him, the night obscure? + In dreams he strayed some brackened glade, + Some heathery moor. + + And if he saw the slanting spars, + And if he watched the shifting track, + He marked, too, the eternal stars + Shine through the wrack. + + And so amid the deep sea din, + And so amid the wastes of foam, + Afar his heart was happy in + His highland home! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + THE WIND AND THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Never the long wind dieth, + Never, never, + But sigheth, crieth, + In its old endeavor, + Where the shifting sand and shingle + Meet and mingle, + And the lifting land and the surge of the waters sever! + + Never the long wind faileth. + Never, never, + But still availeth + In its old endeavor; + Mortals, the changeful-hearted, + May be parted, + But the wind and the sea are wedded forever and ever! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + THE TIDES + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Through rush and reed + The long, strong tides recede, + Jostle and surge, + And toss and urge, + And foam and merge, + Where lily roots shine bright like bronzen brede. + + "Haste! haste!" + That is their cry; + Back to the mother waste + They fleet, they fly, + Again to be embraced— + Again to be a part + Of that great heart! + + As set the tides, so we, + After the stress and roar + Along life's shore, + Shall one day set toward the eternal sea! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SEA ROVER + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The breakers dash, the breakers boom, + Upon the beaches ceaselessly; + Beyond the line of flying spume + Stretch weltering wastes of sea. + + There gray gulls hold their loud carouse, + The four great winds rejoice or mourn, + There go deep barques, with plunging prows, + On far adventures borne. + + That one, with streaming pennon, seeks + The golden gates that guard the morn, + That one the perilous island peaks + Beyond the stormy Horn. + + My fancy sails with each and all, + Unleashed, untrammeled, unconfined; + There is no bond, there is no thrall, + Can chain the roving mind! +</pre> + <h3> + THE MIST BARQUE + </h3> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Over the wave-rim faint and far + (Spectral sail and ghostly spar) + Through the mist-banks a vessel glides + Biding the ridge of the tossing tides. + + Is it Van der Deeken again, + Scourge of the sea, with his evil men, + Come to wreak some murky spell + Out of the yawn of the gulfs of Hell? + + Thus it seems that the craft might be, + With its shifting shroud of mystery, + Forth from the unknown weirdly cast, + Into the unknown fading fast. + + Now no sign of it near or far, + Spectral sail or ghostly spar! + Yet shall I dream of it shudderingly, + Vanished, eldritch ship of the sea, + + Fearful lest some barque be borne + In wake of the wraith (ah, hearts that mourn!) + Through the power of its fatal spell + Into the yawn of the gulfs of Hell. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SEA SHELL + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + You speak to me + Of the long plunge and welter of the sea; + Likewise you are + Oracular + Of its low melody. + You voice its laughing moods, + Its lyric interludes, + Its secrecies, its sorceries, its mysteries, + Its tragic histories. + Aye, all that it has breathed, may breathe, shall breathe, + You unto me bequeath; + Thus am I made the fair inheritor + Of that rare essence of true harmony + Which many a land-girt exile hungers for,— + The sea! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + NIGHT SONG BY THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Wind and rain are at the pane, + Shrilling, drumming without cease; + And the breakers' loud refrain + Gives the shuddering heart no peace. + Lord of all the things that be, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + Snugly roofed with warmth and glow, + And encompassed soft by sleep, + Little we land-dwellers know + Of the terrors of the deep. + Lord, in Thy sweet charity, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + On the smiling face of morn + Sure are we to gaze again; + What of those poor waifs forlorn + Furrowing the untracked main? + Lord, in their dire need of Thee, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + Although riven be the rail, + Snapped the shroud and rent the mast, + May they into harbor sail, + All their perils overpast! + Lord, in Thy compassion, be + Pilot to the souls at sea! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + WILD GEESE + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Along the ocean's shingly edge, + Athwart the turquoise sweep of sky, + The wild geese in a winged wedge + Go darkling by. + + From far lagoons be-plumed with palm, + By cove and cape, by bluff and bay, + Through depths of storm, through vasts of calm, + They speed their way. + + The pharos flashes on their flight; + They do not heed its beckoning beam; + The great North, stretching weird and white, + Lures like a dream; + + Lures, and they answer to the call; + Charms, and they yield them to the spell, + Moved ever by a subtle thrall + Inscrutable. + + Do you not feel it, comrade, too, + The inescapable delight, + The mounting rapture, that bids you + Take vernal flight? +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SEA CHANGE + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Night-long I heard the poignant undertone, + The interminable sobbing of the sea; + And now that morn breaks dim and dolorously + I mark the riotous surges landward blown, + Tempestuous and towering, and hurled prone + Upon the stark sand reaches; and the glee + Of the mad wind, its maniac monody, + Mingles with ocean's dithyrambic moan. + + Not so yestreen, when westward flamed the sun, + Flinging athwart the waves a lustrous path, + Tinging the sky with colors rich and strange! + The black night wrought this mystery of wrath, + This mood demonic (reason seems there none), + This weird and inexplicable sea change! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SAINT SEPULCHRE'S BESIDE THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The new moon marked the twilight hour, + A night-jar quavered eerily, + And swallows circled round the tower— + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + The ivy clung, the ivy climbed, + The wilding rose twined tenderly, + And Time, the overlord, sublimed + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + Below, the surge, the solemn surge, + Murmured and moaned unceasingly, + For all its golden past a dirge— + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + And love and hate were here as one; + Life blent with death harmoniously; + 'Twas beauty in oblivion— + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SEA LYRICS + </h2> + <h3> + I + </h3> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + We heard the breakers clash and boom; + We saw them plunge and writhe and rise, + And toss great flakes of ashen spume + High toward the ashen skies. + + Out of the welter of the east + One gaunt barque like a spectre bore; + The mad wind trumpeted, then ceased, + Then trumpeted once more. + + A mist crept landward, the spent wraith + Of tempests raging far a-lee; + Then day died like an outworn faith, + And night fell on the sea. +</pre> + <h3> + II + </h3> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + O'erhead, the iridescence of the stars, + Ray blending softly with refulgent ray; + Below, above the harbor's hidden bars, + The crumbling iridescence of the spray. + + Before, a beacon flashing level lines, + Seemingly poised upon the far sea-verge; + Behind, the night wind in the oaks and pines, + Crooning in answer to the crooning surge. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0014" id="link2H_4_0014"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + DAWN, THE HARVESTER + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The purple sky has blanched to blue + With freaks and streaks of rose and fawn, + While on the rolling meads of sea + Gleam the gold footsteps of the Dawn. + + What harvest, think you, will he find + Whither he sets his feet to roam? + Upon that boundless beryl plain + Only the lilies of the foam! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + THE LILAC SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + A cool wind took me by the hand + And led me on beguilingly, + Until before me, broad and bland, + Shimmered the lilac sea. + + Great gulls, with mauve upon their wings, + And cries that lingered hauntingly, + Hovered, with graceful flutterings, + Above the lilac sea. + + The curving shore-line had the gleam + Of amethyst; it seemed to me + The ships were all like ships of dream + Upon the lilac sea. + + And naught was real, or near or far, + And yet I have the memory + Of twilight, and the vesper star, + Hung o'er the lilac sea. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SAILOR AMID THE HILLS + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + What does he hear in dreams? The surging wind, + Its long-drawn cadence, its wild harmony, + A mighty harp of infinite strings designed, + Whose sound to him seems sweet immeasurably? + Nay, nay, but through the spaces of his mind, + Plangent or pleading, loud or low-defined, + The ever-haunting murmur of the sea! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SUMMER BY THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of surge-profundos chanted o'er and o'er; + Of ancient wrath and immemorial glee, + And of the ships that sailed and come no more. + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of half-forgotten runes made long ago, + Of moon-wrought marvel and of mystery, + Of glamor—of the glow and after-glow. + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of subtleties of change, of strange unrest; + Of dreams unfathomable that form and flee + Like drifts of mist above the ocean's breast. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + DUSK AT SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends + Upon the beryl bosom of the sea, + And in the sky's serene immensity, + Where the impalpable rose of sunset blends + With pearl and purple, shine the sailor's friends, + God's blessed beacons twinkling timorously, + Then brighter, each in its divine degree, + To where the enrapt range of vision ends. + + When dusk droops dark o'er life's uncertain seas, + Closing our day, deep-shadowing the sun, + And we go forth across death's pathless foam, + May we have stars more stedfast e'en than these,— + Burning above, for us to gaze upon, + Both light and guide on the long journey home. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + THE SPEECH OF THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + All yesterday the sea was sapphire fair, + And the waves told, with little rippling glees, + Of ships that sailed, and then returned to bear + Their golden argosies. + + But ah, to-day the sea is ashen gray, + And ceaselessly has sobbed unto the shore + Of those ill-fated barques that sailed away + And came again no more! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + NIGHT BY THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + I woke in the black watches of the night + And heard the low intoning of the main, + A muffled heart-beat, an unceasing strain + Of music keyed to dolor and delight. + Now sorrow seemed ascendent, now the height + Of rapture beat in the sublime refrain, + Until the whole world's happiness and pain + Had echoed utterance while the dark took flight. + + Then in the sound of that reiterant surge + I marked my own life's flux of bliss and woe— + Grief's long drawn sigh and joy's exultant call; + Till borne by dreams beyond the vast sea verge + I touched those shores the blest immortals know + Where youth and love have triumph over all. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + AUTUMN BY THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Still on the sand and shingle gleams the sun; + Still an unclouded heaven arches o'er; + And still the languid billows roll and run + Down all the lengths of shore. + + Still there are hints of summer in the air, + A sense of restfulness, of rapt repose; + And from remote sea gardens, lush and fair, + Rich attars like the rose. + + Still a soft haze of delicate hyacinth + Broods o'er the sky-line, floating faint and far; + Still on the edge of night's vast labyrinth + Shines the clear vesper-star. + + Soon, all too soon, the spindrift and the spume, + The legions of the surge that fleetly form; + The gray, illimitable wastes of gloom— + The thunderous caves of storm! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + MIST AT SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + The sea was mist-enwreathed at morn, + A void unspeakably forlorn; + Yet from the seeming barren gloom + Beauty, the dream of the world, was born. + + A sudden wafture of wind breath, + And lo, sun glories none gainsaith! + Thus shall the wings of the soul emerge + White from the chrysalis of death. +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0023" id="link2H_4_0023"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SEA SCENE + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + From rim to shimmering rim the sea + Is burnished like chalcedony. + + The waves that set their lips to land + Scarce make a murmur on the sand. + + The ships appear to poise between + Two voids of opalescent sheen. + + Aye, here eternal calm seems set + In bland beatitude, and yet + + A single potent hour, aye, less, + Can change this placid loveliness, + + And cause, where life smiles fair and fain, + The raging demon death to reign! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + MOONRISE BY THE SEA + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Over the sea-rim peered the pallid moon + Out of a woven shroud + Of twilight purple, while their mighty tune + The breakers thundered loud. + + No comrade star, only the mystery + Of that pale orb whose fire + Through immemorial nights has seemed to be + Fulfilled of dim desire. + + And while its wan light drenched the foam-hid coasts, + To the low south wind's sigh + Methought the sad innumerable hosts + Of lovers dead went by; + + And I was whelmed with sadness, with the sense + Of the immutable pathos of the years, + And how the sum of all love's opulence + Must be obscured by tears! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SEA SONG + </h2> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Dolphins under and sea-gulls over + The surge and shift of the dipping tide, + And you, my rover, my blithe sea-rover, + Sailing the path of the undenied. + + In dreams I follow you, O my rover, + Wide, for the ways of the sea are wide; + Come back, come back when the voyage is over,— + Back to the heart of the long denied! +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0026" id="link2H_4_0026"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + A SYMPHONY OF THE SEA + </h2> + <h3> + (GLOZE ROYAL) + </h3> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + <i>The surges sing in ceaseless monotone + The songs and sagas of the long-ago; + Many and mournful are the memories blown + Across the tireless tides that ebb and flow.</i> + + Lo, he who walks beside the wide sea-shore, + And sees the waves unbreasted by the oar, + And lets his thoughts repose on days long flown, + Will slowly o'er his dreamy vision feel + A sweetly lingering sadness softly steal, + And he will pause and listen to the moan + The iterant billows make upon the sand; + And all will seem to him a slumber-land, + Where, through the long night-watches dim and lone, + <i>The surges sing in ceaseless monotone!</i> + + And in his ear the glorious myths of yore + With all the rhythmic burdens that they bore, + Will be retold, replete with joy and woe;— + Ulysses' voyage will ring with epic peal, + And the strange tale of Argo's wandering keel; + Of high-banked Tyrian galleys will he know, + Of Roman triremes, and of many a band + The Vikings led from their far norland strand;— + Stories of strife and love in shine and snow, + <i>The songs and sagas of the long-ago.</i> + + And there will rise within him, more and more, + The strong desire to learn the utmost lore + The great sea holds, that unto none is shown; + And he will cry and bid the deep unseal + Its sacred secrets, and to him reveal + What stern power rules it from what unseen throne. + But no vast shape will show a regnant hand, + Unless, perchance, wan Sorrow by him stand; + From Sorrow's pale, across the seas unsown, + <i>Many and mournful are the memories blown.</i> + + O thou that hast, from decades gone before, + Of bitter and of sweet the fullest store, + Immeasurable sea,—in gloom and glow + Our joy, our terror and our love,—we kneel + At thy dark altar with a vain appeal; + Within thy mighty bosom, far below, + Lie hid the mysteries of Him who planned + The circling spheres that wheel at His command;— + Ah, Sea of Life, to one sure port we go + <i>Across the tireless tides that ebb and flow!</i> +</pre> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's From The Lips of the Sea, by Clinton Scollard + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA *** + +***** This file should be named 7784-h.htm or 7784-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/7/7/8/7784/ + + +Text file produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + +HTML file produced by David Widger + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: From The Lips of the Sea + +Author: Clinton Scollard + + +Release Date: March, 2005 [EBook #7784] +This file was first posted on May 16, 2003 +Last Updated: May 7, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + + + +FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA + + +By Clinton Scollard + + + + +CONTENTS + + + SEA MARVELS + THE MIST AND THE SEA + DIRGE FOR A SAILOR + BAG-PIPES AT SEA + THE WIND AND THE SEA + THE TIDES + A SEA ROVER + THE MIST BARQUE + A SEA SHELL + NIGHT SONG BY THE SEA + WILD GEESE + A SEA CHANGE + SAINT SEPULCHRE'S BESIDE THE SEA + SEA LYRICS + DAWN, THE HARVESTER + THE LILAC SEA + A SAILOR AMID THE HILLS + SUMMER BY THE SEA + DUSK AT SEA + THE SPEECH OF THE SEA + NIGHT BY THE SEA + AUTUMN BY THE SEA + MIST AT SEA + A SEA SCENE + MOONRISE BY THE SEA + A SEA SONG + A SYMPHONY OF THE SEA + + + + _If thou wouldst win the rhythmic heart of things, + Go sit in solitude beside the shore, + Giving thine ear to the eternal roar + And every mystic message that it brings;-- + Eddas of ancient, unremembered kings, + And runes that ring with long-forgotten lore, + All myths and mysteries from the years of yore + Ere Time grew weary on his journeyings. + + And more from that imperious sibyl, Sea, + Thou mayest learn if thou wilt hearken well, + When God's white star-fires beacon home the ships; + The solemn secrets of infinity, + Unto the inner sense translatable, + Hang trembling ever on her darkling lips._ + + + + +SEA MARVELS + + + This morning more mysterious seems the sea + Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, + It charged upon the beaches, and the sky + Above it shimmered cloudless. Now the waves + Lap languorously along the foamless sand, + And till the far horizon swims in mist. + Out of this murk, across this oily sweep, + Might lost armadas grandly sail to shore; + Jason might oar on Argo, or the stern + Surge-wanderer from Ithaca's bleak isle + Break on the sight, or Viking prows appear, + And still not waken wonder. Aye, the sound + Of siren singing might drift o'er the main, + And yet not fall upon amazed ears! + The soul is ripe for marvels. O great deep, + Give up your host of stately presences, + Adventurers and sea-heroes of old time, + And let them pass before us down the day + In proud procession, so that we who hear + Dull bells mark off the uneventful hours + May glimpse the bygone bravery of the world + Now moiling in its multitudinous marts, + Forgetful of fair faith and high resolve + In the inglorious grapple after gold! + + + + +THE MIST AND THE SEA + + + The mist crept in from the sea + Out of the void and the vast; + And it bore the silver rain + A shimmering guest in its train, + And many a murmuring strain + Of the ships that sailed in the past; + Soft as sleep's footfalls be + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea + And folded the length of the shore + In the clasp of its mothering arms + As though it would shield from harms; + And lulled were the loud alarms, + And lost was the rage and roar + Of the surge, so soothingly + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea, + White, impalpable, strange; + Pull of the wafture of wings, + Of eerie and eldritch things, + Of visions and vanishings + Ever in shift and change; + Silently, hauntingly, + The mist crept in from the sea. + + The mist crept in from the sea, + And bode for a space, and then + It heard the imperious call + Of the deep, transcending all, + And it knew itself as the thrall + Of the world-old master of men, + So, still as the dreams that flee, + The mist crept back to the sea. + + + + +DIRGE FOR A SAILOR + + Beyond the bourns of time and sleep, + Beyond the sway of tides, + A voyager o'er death's darksome deep, + His ship at anchor rides. + + He who from boyhood never knew + A garden save the foam, + Whose only rooftree was the blue, + At last has found a home. + + And what more fit than that the wave + He loved through life to stem + Should sing above his green sea grave + This sailor's requiem! + + + + +BAG-PIPES AT SEA + + + Above the shouting of the gale, + The whipping sheet, the dashing spray, + I heard, with notes of joy and wail, + A piper play. + + Along the dipping deck he trod, + The dusk about his shadowy form; + He seemed like some strange ancient god + Of song and storm. + + He gave his dim-seen pipes a skirl + And war went down the darkling air; + Then came a sudden subtle swirl, + And love was there. + + What were the winds that flailed and flayed + The sea to him, the night obscure? + In dreams he strayed some brackened glade, + Some heathery moor. + + And if he saw the slanting spars, + And if he watched the shifting track, + He marked, too, the eternal stars + Shine through the wrack. + + And so amid the deep sea din, + And so amid the wastes of foam, + Afar his heart was happy in + His highland home! + + + + +THE WIND AND THE SEA + + + Never the long wind dieth, + Never, never, + But sigheth, crieth, + In its old endeavor, + Where the shifting sand and shingle + Meet and mingle, + And the lifting land and the surge of the waters sever! + + Never the long wind faileth. + Never, never, + But still availeth + In its old endeavor; + Mortals, the changeful-hearted, + May be parted, + But the wind and the sea are wedded forever and ever! + + + + +THE TIDES + + + Through rush and reed + The long, strong tides recede, + Jostle and surge, + And toss and urge, + And foam and merge, + Where lily roots shine bright like bronzen brede. + + "Haste! haste!" + That is their cry; + Back to the mother waste + They fleet, they fly, + Again to be embraced-- + Again to be a part + Of that great heart! + + As set the tides, so we, + After the stress and roar + Along life's shore, + Shall one day set toward the eternal sea! + + + + +A SEA ROVER + + + The breakers dash, the breakers boom, + Upon the beaches ceaselessly; + Beyond the line of flying spume + Stretch weltering wastes of sea. + + There gray gulls hold their loud carouse, + The four great winds rejoice or mourn, + There go deep barques, with plunging prows, + On far adventures borne. + + That one, with streaming pennon, seeks + The golden gates that guard the morn, + That one the perilous island peaks + Beyond the stormy Horn. + + My fancy sails with each and all, + Unleashed, untrammeled, unconfined; + There is no bond, there is no thrall, + Can chain the roving mind! + + + +THE MIST BARQUE + + + Over the wave-rim faint and far + (Spectral sail and ghostly spar) + Through the mist-banks a vessel glides + Biding the ridge of the tossing tides. + + Is it Van der Deeken again, + Scourge of the sea, with his evil men, + Come to wreak some murky spell + Out of the yawn of the gulfs of Hell? + + Thus it seems that the craft might be, + With its shifting shroud of mystery, + Forth from the unknown weirdly cast, + Into the unknown fading fast. + + Now no sign of it near or far, + Spectral sail or ghostly spar! + Yet shall I dream of it shudderingly, + Vanished, eldritch ship of the sea, + + Fearful lest some barque be borne + In wake of the wraith (ah, hearts that mourn!) + Through the power of its fatal spell + Into the yawn of the gulfs of Hell. + + + + +A SEA SHELL + + + You speak to me + Of the long plunge and welter of the sea; + Likewise you are + Oracular + Of its low melody. + You voice its laughing moods, + Its lyric interludes, + Its secrecies, its sorceries, its mysteries, + Its tragic histories. + Aye, all that it has breathed, may breathe, shall breathe, + You unto me bequeath; + Thus am I made the fair inheritor + Of that rare essence of true harmony + Which many a land-girt exile hungers for,-- + The sea! + + + + +NIGHT SONG BY THE SEA + + + Wind and rain are at the pane, + Shrilling, drumming without cease; + And the breakers' loud refrain + Gives the shuddering heart no peace. + Lord of all the things that be, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + Snugly roofed with warmth and glow, + And encompassed soft by sleep, + Little we land-dwellers know + Of the terrors of the deep. + Lord, in Thy sweet charity, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + On the smiling face of morn + Sure are we to gaze again; + What of those poor waifs forlorn + Furrowing the untracked main? + Lord, in their dire need of Thee, + Pity Thou the souls at sea! + + Although riven be the rail, + Snapped the shroud and rent the mast, + May they into harbor sail, + All their perils overpast! + Lord, in Thy compassion, be + Pilot to the souls at sea! + + + + +WILD GEESE + + + Along the ocean's shingly edge, + Athwart the turquoise sweep of sky, + The wild geese in a winged wedge + Go darkling by. + + From far lagoons be-plumed with palm, + By cove and cape, by bluff and bay, + Through depths of storm, through vasts of calm, + They speed their way. + + The pharos flashes on their flight; + They do not heed its beckoning beam; + The great North, stretching weird and white, + Lures like a dream; + + Lures, and they answer to the call; + Charms, and they yield them to the spell, + Moved ever by a subtle thrall + Inscrutable. + + Do you not feel it, comrade, too, + The inescapable delight, + The mounting rapture, that bids you + Take vernal flight? + + + + +A SEA CHANGE + + + Night-long I heard the poignant undertone, + The interminable sobbing of the sea; + And now that morn breaks dim and dolorously + I mark the riotous surges landward blown, + Tempestuous and towering, and hurled prone + Upon the stark sand reaches; and the glee + Of the mad wind, its maniac monody, + Mingles with ocean's dithyrambic moan. + + Not so yestreen, when westward flamed the sun, + Flinging athwart the waves a lustrous path, + Tinging the sky with colors rich and strange! + The black night wrought this mystery of wrath, + This mood demonic (reason seems there none), + This weird and inexplicable sea change! + + + + +SAINT SEPULCHRE'S BESIDE THE SEA + + + The new moon marked the twilight hour, + A night-jar quavered eerily, + And swallows circled round the tower-- + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + The ivy clung, the ivy climbed, + The wilding rose twined tenderly, + And Time, the overlord, sublimed + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + Below, the surge, the solemn surge, + Murmured and moaned unceasingly, + For all its golden past a dirge-- + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea. + + And love and hate were here as one; + Life blent with death harmoniously; + 'Twas beauty in oblivion-- + Saint Sepulchre's beside the sea! + + + + +SEA LYRICS + +I + + + We heard the breakers clash and boom; + We saw them plunge and writhe and rise, + And toss great flakes of ashen spume + High toward the ashen skies. + + Out of the welter of the east + One gaunt barque like a spectre bore; + The mad wind trumpeted, then ceased, + Then trumpeted once more. + + A mist crept landward, the spent wraith + Of tempests raging far a-lee; + Then day died like an outworn faith, + And night fell on the sea. + + +II + + + O'erhead, the iridescence of the stars, + Ray blending softly with refulgent ray; + Below, above the harbor's hidden bars, + The crumbling iridescence of the spray. + + Before, a beacon flashing level lines, + Seemingly poised upon the far sea-verge; + Behind, the night wind in the oaks and pines, + Crooning in answer to the crooning surge. + + + + +DAWN, THE HARVESTER + + + The purple sky has blanched to blue + With freaks and streaks of rose and fawn, + While on the rolling meads of sea + Gleam the gold footsteps of the Dawn. + + What harvest, think you, will he find + Whither he sets his feet to roam? + Upon that boundless beryl plain + Only the lilies of the foam! + + + + +THE LILAC SEA + + + A cool wind took me by the hand + And led me on beguilingly, + Until before me, broad and bland, + Shimmered the lilac sea. + + Great gulls, with mauve upon their wings, + And cries that lingered hauntingly, + Hovered, with graceful flutterings, + Above the lilac sea. + + The curving shore-line had the gleam + Of amethyst; it seemed to me + The ships were all like ships of dream + Upon the lilac sea. + + And naught was real, or near or far, + And yet I have the memory + Of twilight, and the vesper star, + Hung o'er the lilac sea. + + + + +A SAILOR AMID THE HILLS + + + What does he hear in dreams? The surging wind, + Its long-drawn cadence, its wild harmony, + A mighty harp of infinite strings designed, + Whose sound to him seems sweet immeasurably? + Nay, nay, but through the spaces of his mind, + Plangent or pleading, loud or low-defined, + The ever-haunting murmur of the sea! + + + + +SUMMER BY THE SEA + + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of surge-profundos chanted o'er and o'er; + Of ancient wrath and immemorial glee, + And of the ships that sailed and come no more. + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of half-forgotten runes made long ago, + Of moon-wrought marvel and of mystery, + Of glamor--of the glow and after-glow. + + This is a song of summer by the sea, + Of subtleties of change, of strange unrest; + Of dreams unfathomable that form and flee + Like drifts of mist above the ocean's breast. + + + + +DUSK AT SEA + + + Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends + Upon the beryl bosom of the sea, + And in the sky's serene immensity, + Where the impalpable rose of sunset blends + With pearl and purple, shine the sailor's friends, + God's blessed beacons twinkling timorously, + Then brighter, each in its divine degree, + To where the enrapt range of vision ends. + + When dusk droops dark o'er life's uncertain seas, + Closing our day, deep-shadowing the sun, + And we go forth across death's pathless foam, + May we have stars more stedfast e'en than these,-- + Burning above, for us to gaze upon, + Both light and guide on the long journey home. + + + + +THE SPEECH OF THE SEA + + + All yesterday the sea was sapphire fair, + And the waves told, with little rippling glees, + Of ships that sailed, and then returned to bear + Their golden argosies. + + But ah, to-day the sea is ashen gray, + And ceaselessly has sobbed unto the shore + Of those ill-fated barques that sailed away + And came again no more! + + + + +NIGHT BY THE SEA + + + I woke in the black watches of the night + And heard the low intoning of the main, + A muffled heart-beat, an unceasing strain + Of music keyed to dolor and delight. + Now sorrow seemed ascendent, now the height + Of rapture beat in the sublime refrain, + Until the whole world's happiness and pain + Had echoed utterance while the dark took flight. + + Then in the sound of that reiterant surge + I marked my own life's flux of bliss and woe-- + Grief's long drawn sigh and joy's exultant call; + Till borne by dreams beyond the vast sea verge + I touched those shores the blest immortals know + Where youth and love have triumph over all. + + + + +AUTUMN BY THE SEA + + + Still on the sand and shingle gleams the sun; + Still an unclouded heaven arches o'er; + And still the languid billows roll and run + Down all the lengths of shore. + + Still there are hints of summer in the air, + A sense of restfulness, of rapt repose; + And from remote sea gardens, lush and fair, + Rich attars like the rose. + + Still a soft haze of delicate hyacinth + Broods o'er the sky-line, floating faint and far; + Still on the edge of night's vast labyrinth + Shines the clear vesper-star. + + Soon, all too soon, the spindrift and the spume, + The legions of the surge that fleetly form; + The gray, illimitable wastes of gloom-- + The thunderous caves of storm! + + + + +MIST AT SEA + + + The sea was mist-enwreathed at morn, + A void unspeakably forlorn; + Yet from the seeming barren gloom + Beauty, the dream of the world, was born. + + A sudden wafture of wind breath, + And lo, sun glories none gainsaith! + Thus shall the wings of the soul emerge + White from the chrysalis of death. + + + + +A SEA SCENE + + + From rim to shimmering rim the sea + Is burnished like chalcedony. + + The waves that set their lips to land + Scarce make a murmur on the sand. + + The ships appear to poise between + Two voids of opalescent sheen. + + Aye, here eternal calm seems set + In bland beatitude, and yet + + A single potent hour, aye, less, + Can change this placid loveliness, + + And cause, where life smiles fair and fain, + The raging demon death to reign! + + + + +MOONRISE BY THE SEA + + + Over the sea-rim peered the pallid moon + Out of a woven shroud + Of twilight purple, while their mighty tune + The breakers thundered loud. + + No comrade star, only the mystery + Of that pale orb whose fire + Through immemorial nights has seemed to be + Fulfilled of dim desire. + + And while its wan light drenched the foam-hid coasts, + To the low south wind's sigh + Methought the sad innumerable hosts + Of lovers dead went by; + + And I was whelmed with sadness, with the sense + Of the immutable pathos of the years, + And how the sum of all love's opulence + Must be obscured by tears! + + + + +A SEA SONG + + + Dolphins under and sea-gulls over + The surge and shift of the dipping tide, + And you, my rover, my blithe sea-rover, + Sailing the path of the undenied. + + In dreams I follow you, O my rover, + Wide, for the ways of the sea are wide; + Come back, come back when the voyage is over,-- + Back to the heart of the long denied! + + + + +A SYMPHONY OF THE SEA + +(GLOZE ROYAL) + + + _The surges sing in ceaseless monotone + The songs and sagas of the long-ago; + Many and mournful are the memories blown + Across the tireless tides that ebb and flow._ + + Lo, he who walks beside the wide sea-shore, + And sees the waves unbreasted by the oar, + And lets his thoughts repose on days long flown, + Will slowly o'er his dreamy vision feel + A sweetly lingering sadness softly steal, + And he will pause and listen to the moan + The iterant billows make upon the sand; + And all will seem to him a slumber-land, + Where, through the long night-watches dim and lone, + _The surges sing in ceaseless monotone!_ + + And in his ear the glorious myths of yore + With all the rhythmic burdens that they bore, + Will be retold, replete with joy and woe;-- + Ulysses' voyage will ring with epic peal, + And the strange tale of Argo's wandering keel; + Of high-banked Tyrian galleys will he know, + Of Roman triremes, and of many a band + The Vikings led from their far norland strand;-- + Stories of strife and love in shine and snow, + _The songs and sagas of the long-ago._ + + And there will rise within him, more and more, + The strong desire to learn the utmost lore + The great sea holds, that unto none is shown; + And he will cry and bid the deep unseal + Its sacred secrets, and to him reveal + What stern power rules it from what unseen throne. + But no vast shape will show a regnant hand, + Unless, perchance, wan Sorrow by him stand; + From Sorrow's pale, across the seas unsown, + _Many and mournful are the memories blown._ + + O thou that hast, from decades gone before, + Of bitter and of sweet the fullest store, + Immeasurable sea,--in gloom and glow + Our joy, our terror and our love,--we kneel + At thy dark altar with a vain appeal; + Within thy mighty bosom, far below, + Lie hid the mysteries of Him who planned + The circling spheres that wheel at His command;-- + Ah, Sea of Life, to one sure port we go + _Across the tireless tides that ebb and flow!_ + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's From The Lips of the Sea, by Clinton Scollard + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM THE LIPS OF THE SEA *** + +***** This file should be named 7784.txt or 7784.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/7/7/8/7784/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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