Rhapsody
Reading edition
Moon-lit sea coast, wild rose blowing, Smack of salt, and gray gull’s cry: Night that is wild with the exultation Of the bellowing breath from a cool, clear sky: Green waves swinging down the moon-path Pause and lean and break and roar, Making full majestic music, As they pound the sounding shore. Oh, to forget! half-mad with moon-light, And toss with the cold waves where they go, Cedar green and molten silver, Tireless tumult of ebb and flow, Rapturous, wild, eternal rhythm, To and fro. ARTHUR MILLIKEN.