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With short sharp violent lights made vivid	A
To southward far as the sight can roam	B
Only the swirl of the surges livid	C
The seas that climb and the surfs that comb	B
Only the crag and the cliff to nor'ward	D
And the rocks receding and reefs flung forward	E
And waifs wreck'd seaward and wasted shoreward	E
On shallows sheeted with flaming foam	B
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A grim grey coast and a seaboard ghastly	F
And shores trod seldom by feet of men	G
Where the batter'd hull and the broken mast lie	H
They have lain embedded these long years ten	G
Love when we wander'd here together	I
Hand in hand through the sparkling weather	I
From the heights and hollows of fern and heather	I
God surely loved us a little then	G
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The skies were fairer and shores were firmer	I
The blue sea over the bright sand roll'd	J
Babble and prattle and ripple and murmur	I
Sheen of silver and glamour of gold	J
And the sunset bath'd in the gulf to lend her	I
A garland of pinks and of purples tender	I
A tinge of the sun god's rosy splendour	I
A tithe of his glories manifold	J
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Man's works are graven cunning and skilful	H
On earth where his tabernacles are	I
But the sea is wanton the sea is wilful	H
And who shall mend her and who shall mar	I
Shall we carve success or record disaster	I
On the bosom of her heaving alabaster	I
Will her purple pulse beat fainter or faster	I
For fallen sparrow or fallen star	I
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I would that with sleepy soft embraces	K
The sea would fold me would find me rest	L
In luminous shades of her secret places	M
In depths where her marvels are manifest	L
So the earth beneath her should not discover	I
My hidden couch nor the heaven above her	I
As a strong love shielding a weary lover	I
I would have her shield me with shining breast	L
	-
When light in the realms of space lay hidden	N
When life was yet in the womb of time	O
Ere flesh was fettered to fruits forbidden	N
And souls were wedded to care and crime	O
Was the course foreshaped for the future spirit	P
A burden of folly a void of merit	P
That would fain the wisdom of stars inherit	P
And cannot fathom the seas sublime	O
	-
Under the sea or the soil what matter	I
The sea and the soil are under the sun	N
As in the former days in the latter	I
The sleeping or waking is known of none	N
Surely the sleeper shall not awaken	N
To griefs forgotten or joys forsaken	N
For the price of all things given and taken	N
The sum of all things done and undone	N
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Shall we count offences or coin excuses	K
Or weigh with scales the soul of a man	Q
Whom a strong hand binds and a sure hand looses	K
Whose light is a spark and his life a span	Q
The seed he sow'd or the soil he cumber'd	P
The time he served or the space he slumber'd	P
Will it profit a man when his days are number'd	P
Or his deeds since the days of his life began	Q
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One glad because of the light saith Shall not	P
The righteous Judge of all the earth do right	P
For behold the sparrows on the house tops fall not	P
Save as seemeth to Him good in His sight	P
And this man's joy shall have no abiding	R
Through lights departing and lives dividing	R
He is soon as one in the darkness hiding	R
One loving darkness rather than light	P
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A little season of love and laughter	I
Of light and life and pleasure and pain	S
And a horror of outer darkness after	I
And dust returneth to dust again	G
Then the lesser life shall be as the greater	I
And the lover of life shall join the hater	I
And the one thing cometh sooner or later	I
And no one knoweth the loss or gain	S
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Love of my life we had lights in season	N
Hard to part from harder to keep	T
We had strength to labour and souls to reason	N
And seed to scatter and fruits to reap	T
Though time estranges and fate disperses	K
We have had our loves and our loving mercies	K
Though the gifts of the light in the end are curses	K
Yet bides the gift of the darkness sleep	T
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See girt with tempest and wing'd with thunder	I
And clad with lightning and shod with sleet	P
The strong winds treading the swift waves sunder	I
The flying rollers with frothy feet	P
One gleam like a bloodshot sword blade swims on	U
The sky line staining the green gulf crimson	N
A death stroke fiercely dealt by a dim sun	N
That strikes through his stormy winding sheet	P
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Oh brave white horses you gather and gallop	V
The storm sprite loosens the gusty reins	K
Now the stoutest ship were the frailest shallop	V
In your hollow backs or your high arch'd manes	K
I would ride as never a man has ridden	N
In your sleepy swirling surges hidden	N
To gulfs foreshadow'd through straits forbidden	N
Where no light wearies and no love wanes	K

Adam Lindsay Gordon

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