THE SEA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE SEA

By Audrey Levis (15), Original T STROLLED along the firm, silver sand, now strewn with long brown tendrils of damp'seaweed, and driftwood, watching the sea. To-day, the ocean was angry, for the waves rushed headlong on to the beach where they broke with a thundering roar. Round the rocks they curled with spume and spray that was flung, like a cream lacy veil, high into the air. Further from the shore, out upon the bar the waves raced, their crests ris-

ing higher and higher, until, at last, the big green wall of water collapsed into a foam-covered roll which hurled itself with all its force against obstacles hindering its progress; after surmounting those difficulties, it spent its last ounces of energy and strength in rushing upon the beach from whence it receded only to be caught again in the hurry and rush of the wave that followed it. Twilight dropped her curtain upon the turbulent sea, where the white, foam-tipped waves and the cream spray gleamed strangely in the gathering darkness and, at last I turned my footsteps to the homeward trail with the roar of the sea following me.