RESURGAM.
Let us go down to the sea, ere the noisy day is over, Let us go down to the sea, and strip us of care and of toil; There are graves in the heart of man that only the sea can cover ; ■ There are deeds in the heart of man to be sown as the deep-sea spoil. Free us from surging of sound that urges us on to the morrow; Wrest us from merciless round that returns with tko birth of a morn ; Free us from harassing thought, and the wind's wild pinion borrow,— Yet there is room for the heart where the wave and the world are born ! And the grief which lieth behind let us give to the grace of forgetting, And the hope that Avas dimmed let us shrive with the clean, keen salt of
the sea; And the fruitless doubt let us fling beyond the bounds of regretting,— Where only the wave and the sky and the soul of man may be !
Earth, the mother, hath balm for her world-stained sons and daughters , Earth, the mother, hath balm for her toilspent hearts and sad ; Time can not curb nor deny God's bountiful boon of waters— . Let us down to the sea, my soul, let us down to the sea and be glad ! Virginia Woodward Cloud in August •Bookman.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 276, 27 November 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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