SUNRISE AT SEA
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When the first flaming limb Of the great star of day Is born in the East, It is the signal For the channels of the sea To open most widely; The hour for the ghosts Of those once drowned To wander on the sea: And when all seaworn things Rise from cool wells of flame, And bathe in the wind of dawn: It is the time of all The day and night When songs are heard From other worlds; For then the feet of sound Most subtly run. Angel, though then I have thee not, It is the hour when I am nearest thee.
