The Turn of the Tide.
Driven before the breeze, tossed here and there, Reluctantly the wild sea leaves the sand; Yet pauses for awhile upon the strand, Then swifter ebbs, where like to mermaid's hair Brown seaweed decks the rocks erstwhile so bare; Here lags awhile; then swiftly from the land The wind springs up, and, with his merry band, Drives back the ocean to its storm-bound lair. The tide is out; all softly dies the wind J The sad brown shore liea naked 'neath theßky, And prays the shelter she half-proudlyFspurned, Cowering beneath the stones, all seaweedtwined ; Then calls her love with shrill despairing cry: He hears, he comes, and swift the tide |has turned. J.B.P.
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Evening Star, Issue 7754, 27 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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117The Turn of the Tide. Evening Star, Issue 7754, 27 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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