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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XI From which the seas of faith have ebbed away, Leaving the lonely shore too bright, too bare, While mirrored softly in the smooth wet sand A deeper sunset sees its blooms expand But all too phantom-fair, Between the dark brown rocks and sparkling spray Where the low ripples pleaded, shrank and sighed, And tossed a moment's rainbow heavenward ere they died. Stoop, starry souls, incline to this dark coast, Where all too long, too faithlessly, we dream. Stoop to the world's dark pool, its crags and scars, Its yellow sands, its rosy harbour-bars, And soft green wastes that gleam But with some glorious drifting god-like ghost Of cloud, some vaguely passionate crimson stain: Rend the blue waves of heaven, shatter our sleep again THE ISLAND HAWK (a Song For The First Launching Of His Majesty's Aerial Navy) Chorus? Ships have swept with my conquering name Over the waves of war, Swept thro' the Spaniards' thunder and flame To the splendour of Trafalgar: On the blistered decks of their great renown, In the wind of my storm-beat wings, Hawkins and Hawke went sailing down To the liarbour of deep-sea kings By the storm-beat wings of the hawk, the hawk, Bent beak and pitiless breast, They clove their way thro' the red sea-fray: Who wakens me now to the quest? Hushed are the whimpering winds on the hill, Dumb is the shrinking plain, And the songs that enchanted the woods are still As I shoot to the skies again Does the blood grow black on my fierce bent beak, Does the down still cling to my claw? Who brightened these eyes for the prey they seek? Life, I follow thy law For I am the hawk, the hawk, the hawk Who knoweth my pitiless breast? Who watcheth me sway in the wild wind's wayf Flee?flee?for I quest, I quest. As I ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217192729 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217192726 |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.78 In |
| List Price | $38.79 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 350 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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