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All night I lay on Devil's Edge	A
Along an overhanging ledge	A
Between the sky and sea	B
And as I rested 'waiting sleep	C
The windless sky and soundless deep	C
In one dim blue infinity	B
Of starry peace encompassed me	B
	-
And I remembered drowsily	D
How 'mid the hills last night I'd lain	E
Beside a singing moorland burn	F
And waked at dawn to feel the rain	E
Fall on my face as on the fern	F
That drooped about my heather bed	G
And how by noon the wind had blown	H
The last grey shred from out the sky	I
And blew my homespun jacket dry	I
As I stood on the topmost stone	H
That crowns the cairn on Hawkshaw Head	G
And caught a gleam of far off sea	B
And heard the wind sing in the bent	J
Like those far waters calling me	B
When my heart answering to the call	D
I followed down the seaward stream	K
By silent pool and singing fall	D
Till with a quiet keen content	J
I watched the sun a crimson ball	D
Shoot through grey seas a fiery gleam	K
Then sink in opal deeps from sight	L
	-
And with the coming on of night	L
The wind had dropped and as I lay	D
Retracing all the happy day	D
And gazing long and dreamily	D
Across the dim unsounding sea	B
Over the far horizon came	M
A sudden sail of amber flame	M
And soon the new moon rode on high	I
Through cloudless deeps of crystal sky	I
	-
Too holy seemed the night for sleep	C
And yet I must have slept it seems	N
For suddenly I woke to hear	O
A strange voice singing shrill and clear	P
Down in a gully black and deep	C
That cleft the beetling crag in twain	E
It seemed the very voice of dreams	N
That drive hag ridden souls in fear	P
Through echoing unearthly vales	Q
To plunge in black slow crawling streams	N
Seeking to drown that cry in vain	E
Or some sea creature's voice that wails	Q
Through blind white banks of fog unlifting	I
To God forgotten sailors drifting	I
Rudderless to death	R
And as I heard	S
Though no wind stirred	S
An icy breath	R
Was in my hair	T
And clutched my heart with cold despair	T
But as the wild song died away	D
There came a faltering break	I
That shivered to a sobbing fall	D
And seemed half human after all	D
	-
And yet what foot could find a track	I
In that deep gully sheer and black	I
And singing wildly in the night	L
So wondering I lay awake	I
Until the coming of the light	L
Brought day's familiar presence back	I
	-
Down by the harbour mouth that day	D
A fisher told the tale to me	B
Three months before while out at sea	B
Young Philip Burn was lost though how	U
None knew and none would ever know	V
The boat becalmed at noonday lay	D
And not a ripple on the sea	B
And Philip standing in the bow	U
When his six comrades went below	V
To sleep away an hour or so	V
Dog tired with working day and night	L
While he kept watch and not a sound	W
They heard until at set of sun	X
They woke and coming up they found	W
The deck was empty Philip gone	Y
Yet not another boat in sight	L
And not a ripple on the sea	B
How he had vanished none could tell	D
They only knew the lad was dead	G
They'd left but now alive and well	D
And he poor fellow newly wed	G
And when they broke the news to her	Z
She spoke no word to anyone	X
But sat all day and would not stir	Z
Just staring staring in the fire	Z
With eyes that never seemed to tire	Z
Until at last the day was done	X
And darkness came when she would rise	A2
And seek the door with queer wild eyes	A2
And wander singing all the night	L
Unearthly songs beside the sea	B
But always the first blink of light	L
Would find her back at her own door	B2
	-
'Twas Winter when I came once more	B2
To that old village by the shore	B2
And as at night I climbed the street	C2
I heard a singing low and sweet	C2
Within a cottage near at hand	D2
And I was glad awhile to stand	D2
And listen by the glowing pane	E
And as I hearkened that sweet strain	E
Brought back the night when I had lain	E
Awake on Devil's Edge	A
And now I knew the voice again	E2
So different free of pain and fear	P
Its terror turned to tenderness	F2
And yet the same voice none the less	G2
Though singing now so true and clear	P
And drawing nigh the window ledge	A
I watched the mother sing to rest	H2
The baby snuggling to her breast	H2

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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