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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SEA, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poet's Biography
First Line: Come down with me to the moon-led sea
Last Line: Swinging beneath the stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: Come down with me to the moon-led sea
Last Line: Swinging beneath the stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
Come down with me to the moon-led sea,
Where the long wave ebbs and fills;
Are these the tides that follow
As the lunar impulse wills?
Nay, rather, this is the heart of God,
Naked under the sky,
And we hear its pulse with wonder --
The shore, and the clouds, and I!
Unearthly, awful, uncompelled,
Eternity framed in clay,
The urge of exhaustless passions,
Rocking beneath the gray!
Its life is the blood of the universe
Through cosmic arteries hurled,
With the throb of its giant pulses
God feeds the veins of the world!
And the lands are wrinkled and gray with time
And scored with a thousand scars,
But the sea is the soul of the Infinite,
Swinging beneath the stars!
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