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The dawn of night more fair than morning rose	B
Stars hurrying forth on stars as snows on snows	B
Haste when the wind and winter bid them speed	C
Vague miles of moorland road behind us lay	D
Scarce traversed ere the day	D
Sank and the sun forsook us at our need	C
Belated Where we thought to have rested rest	E
Was none for soft Maree's dim quivering breast	E
Bound round with gracious inland girth of green	F
And fearless of the wild wave wandering West	E
Shone shelterless for strangers and unseen	F
The goal before us lay	D
Of all our blithe and strange and strenuous day	D
For when the northering road faced westward when	G
The dark sharp sudden gorge dropped seaward then	G
Beneath the stars between the steeps the track	H
We followed lighted not of moon or sun	I
And plunging whither none	I
Might guess while heaven and earth were hoar and black	H
Seemed even the dim still pass whence none turns back	H
And through the twilight leftward of the way	D
And down the dark with many a laugh and leap	J
The light blithe hill streams shone from scaur to steep	J
In glittering pride of play	D
And ever while the night grew great and deep	J
We felt but saw not what the hills would keep	J
Sacred awhile from sense of moon or star	K
And full and far	K
Beneath us sweet and strange as heaven may be	L
The sea	L
The very sea no mountain moulded lake	M
Whose fluctuant shapeliness is fain to take	M
Shape from the steadfast shore that rules it round	N
And only from the storms a casual sound	N
The sea that harbours in her heart sublime	O
The supreme heart of music deep as time	O
And in her spirit strong	P
The spirit of all imaginable song	P
Not a whisper or lisp from the waters the skies were not silenter Peace	Q
Was between them a passionless rapture of respite as soft as release	Q
Not a sound but a sense that possessed and pervaded with patient delight	R
The soul and the body clothed round with the comfort of limitless night	R
Night infinite living adorable loved of the land and the sea	L
Night mother of mercies who saith to the spirits in prison Be free	L
And softer than dewfall and kindlier than starlight and keener than wine	S
Came round us the fragrance of waters the life of the breath of the brine	S
We saw not we heard not the face or the voice of the waters we knew	T
By the darkling delight of the wind as the sense of the sea in it grew	T
By the pulse of the darkness about us enkindled and quickened that here	U
Unseen and unheard of us surely the goal we had faith in was near	V
A silence diviner than music a darkness diviner than light	R
Fulfilled as from heaven with a measureless comfort the measure of night	R
But never a roof for shelter	W
And never a sign for guide	X
Rose doubtful or visible only	L
And hardly and gladly we heard	Y
The soft waves whisper and welter	W
Subdued and allured to subside	X
By the mild night's magic the lonely	L
Sweet silence was soothed not stirred	Y
By the noiseless noise of the gleaming	Z
Glad ripples that played and sighed	X
Kissed laughed recoiled and relented	A2
Whispered flickered and fled	B2
No season was this for dreaming	Z
How oft with a stormier tide	X
Had the wrath of the winds been vented	A2
On sons of the tribes long dead	B2
The tribes whom time and the changes	C2
Of things and the stress of doom	D2
Have erased and effaced forgotten	I
As wrecks or weeds of the shore	E2
In sight of the stern hill ranges	C2
That hardly may change their gloom	D2
When the fruits of the years wax rotten	I
And the seed of them springs no more	E2
For the dim strait footway dividing	Z
The waters that breathed below	F2
Led safe to the kindliest of shelters	G2
That ever awoke into light	R
And still in remembrance abiding	Z
Broods over the stars that glow	F2
And the water that eddies and welters	G2
The passionate peace of the night	R
All night long in the world of sleep	J
Skies and waters were soft and deep	J
Shadow clothed them and silence made	H2
Soundless music of dream and shade	H2
All above us the livelong night	R
Shadow kindled with sense of light	R
All around us the brief night long	P
Silence laden with sense of song	P
Stars and mountains without we knew	T
Watched and waited the soft night through	T
All unseen but divined and dear	V
Thrilled the touch of the sea's breath near	V
All unheard but alive like sound	N
Throbbed the sense of the sea's life round	N
Round us near us in depth and height	R
Soft as darkness and keen as light	R
And the dawn leapt in at my casement and there as I rose at my feet	I2
No waves of the landlocked waters no lake submissive and sweet	I2
Soft slave of the lordly seasons whose breath may loose it or freeze	G2
But to left and to right and ahead was the ripple whose pulse is the sea's	G2
From the gorge we had travelled by starlight the sunrise winged and aflame	J2
Shone large on the live wide wavelets that shuddered with joy as it came	J2
As it came and caressed and possessed them till panting and laughing with light	R
From mountain to mountain the water was kindled and stung to delight	R
And the grey gaunt heights that embraced and constrained and compelled it were glad	K2
And the rampart of rock stark naked that thwarted and barred it was clad	K2
With a stern grey splendour of sunrise and scarce had I sprung to the sea	G2
When the dawn and the water were wedded the hills and the sky set free	G2
The chain of the night was broken the waves that embraced me and smiled	L2
And flickered and fawned in the sunlight alive unafraid undefiled	L2
Were sweeter to swim in than air though fulfilled with the mounting morn	M2
Could be for the birds whose triumph rejoiced that a day was born	M2
And a day was arisen indeed for us Years and the changes of years	G2
Clothed round with their joys and their sorrows and dead as their hopes and their fears	G2
Lie noteless and nameless unlit by remembrance or record of days	G2
Worth wonder or memory or cursing or blessing or passion or praise	G2
Between us who live and forget not but yearn with delight in it yet	L2
And the day we forget not and never may live and may think to forget	L2
And the years that were kindlier and fairer and kindled with pleasures as keen	F
Have eclipsed not with lights or with shadows the light on the face of it seen	F
For softly and surely as nearer the boat that we gazed from drew	T
The face of the precipice opened and bade us as birds pass through	T
And the bark shot sheer to the sea through the strait of the sharp steep cleft	L2
The portal that opens with imminent rampires to right and to left	L2
Sublime as the sky they darken and strange as a spell struck dream	N2
On the world unconfined of the mountains the reign of the sea supreme	N2
The kingdom of westward waters wherein when we swam we knew	T
The waves that we clove were boundless the wind on our brows that blew	T
Had swept no land and no lake and had warred not on tower or on tree	G2
But came on us hard out of heaven and alive with the soul of the sea	G2

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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