We walked beside the sea
After a day which perished silentl
Of its own glory---like the Princess weir
Who, combating the Genius, scorched and seared
Uttered with burning breath, "Ho! victory!
And sank adown, an heap of ashes pale
So runs the Arab tale"
The sky above us showe
An universal and unmoving cloud
On which, the cliffs permitted us to se
Only the outline of their majesty
As master-minds, when gazed at by the crowd
And, shining with a gloom, the water gre
Swang in its moon-taught way
Nor moon nor stars were out
They did not dare to tread so soon about
Though trembling, in the footsteps of the sun
The light was neither night's nor day's, but on
Which, life-like, had a beauty in its doubt
And Silence's impassioned breathings roun
Seemed wandering into sound
O solemn-beating hear
Of nature! I have knowledge that thou ar
Bound unto man's by cords he cannot sever--
And, what time they are slackened by him ever
So to attest his own supernal part
Still runneth thy vibration fast and strong
The slackened cord along
For though we never spok
Of the grey water anal the shaded rock,--
Dark wave and stone, unconsciously, were fuse
Into the plaintive speaking that we used
Of absent friends and memories unforsook
And, had we seen each other's face, we ha
Seen haply, each was sad
