A SEA CHANGE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14013, 18 September 1909, Page 6

A SEA CHANGE.

Night long I heard the poignant undertone, The interminable sobbing of the sea : And now that morn breaks dim and dolorously I mark the riotous surges landward * blown, Tempestuous and towering, and hurled prone Upon tho stark sand reaches ; and tho glee Of the mad wind, its maniac monody, Mingles with ocean's dithyrambic moan. Not so yestreen, when westward flamed the sun, Flinging athwart the waves a lustrous path, Tingling the sky with colours rich and strange ! The black night wrought this mystery of wrath, This mood demonic (reason seems there none), This weird and inexplicable sea change ! — Clinton Scollard.