  Grey liegeman of sundown and dawn, who chides With a lone song the ocean-murmuring trees, I haste with thee at dusk to stalk the seas Where feed the finny flocks of shepherding tides. O wild the pulses beat as round us glides The tidal spirit, like a midnight breeze, Burdened with moan of life-and-death decrees,— The deep night's tide-line pacing with our strides! More weird than winkings of the ruddy Mars These flitting gleams and breaths of hell and heaven, Searching the shadowy folds 'twixt peace and dread!— Nor dreamed I such solemnities did leaven Life's daily meal and league its dole of bread With unseen forces vaster than the stars'. |
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