Away Beyond the Sea.
The storm-tossed waves are raging wild, Loud shrieks the angry blast, The sullen sky with lowering clouds Is darkly overcast. The waiting elements around May ravage bold and free, They reach nor stir the peaceful calm Away beyond the sea. When gentle zephyrs waft us on, And sunshine lights the wave, What thought then of the tempest's power, The threatened watery grave ? When upward soars the praiseful song, The rapture of the free, An echo mingles with the strain From far beyond the sea. What hosts that once were tempest borne Now taste the heavenly calm ! What reck they of life's tumult span In the seraphic psalm! Where life and love in fullness meet For all eternity, 'Tis theirs to sing the glad new song Away beyond the sea. Roll on proud -waves, lift up your heads Till crowned and crested hoar, Ye yet will yield your secrets up, And vex those depths no more. A light will pierce their inmost bounds, Their dark immensity, And ye shall hear and roll no more, There shall be no more sea. Walter Monro.
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New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 6, 1 March 1903, Page 438
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185Away Beyond the Sea. New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 6, 1 March 1903, Page 438
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