Lover's Diary

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0064" id="link2H_4_0064"></SPAN></p> <br/> <h2> THE SEA </h2> <p>I in my childhood never saw the sea<br/> Save in my dreams. There it was vast and lone,<br/> Splendid in power, breaking against the stone<br/> Walls of the world in thunder symphony.<br/> <br/> From it arose mists growing into mists<br/> Making a cool white curtain for the sun,<br/> And melting mornward when the day was done,<br/> A moving sphere where spirits kept their trysts.<br/> <br/> A ceaseless swinging with the swinging earth,<br/> A never-tiring ebbing to and fro,<br/> Trenching eternal fastnesses; a girth<br/> <br/> Round mountains in their everlasting snow.<br/> It was a vast emotion, fibre-drawn<br/> From all the elements since the first dawn.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />