Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SEA SONG OUT of the storm and the winds wild and cold, Out of the mist and the moon's path of gold, Out of the depth of the wave's emerald fold, My soul goeth forth to thee! Caught in the arms of the feathery spray, Wrapt in a robe of the sun's lilac ray, In the song the sea sings on the gray beach to-day, Thy soul returneth to me!BY THE PACIFIC I.— TWILIGHT enfold, But not before strange beauties fill the space Of quiet water in the harbor-nest, Gold and vermilion, with a gift of rest, Making a holy-ground — this little place! Fog-wings enfold, But not before the mighty deep has laid, As guerdon on the patient shore's calm breast, Kisses of peace — soft from the wave's white crest, As though the yearning, restless waters prayed. Fog-wings enfold, But not before the mountains meet the sea, Mist of the peak with mist of headland — one — Wrapt, withdrawn, in pearly unison, Ere night and darkness win the mastery. H.-NOCTURNE Silence! Then the low music comes, The throbbing music of the slow night- tide Up through the fog and mist. List! Ah,list! Hear the tall breakers ride Landward in stately pride; While leagues beyond sleeps the dark sea, Tranquilly! tranquilly! Where sea and sky are one, Sleeps the dark sea! SEA MIST T 7HO knows if the Sea love the Mountain YV well? All day long doth he take his way, Shimmering, shining, boastful, free, Ever proud is the stately sea! For the distant mountain, what cares he ? But when in the midnight, the long moonbeams In whitened splendor across the wall Of the rugged mountain, sad and tall, Then doth the Sea send a pearly zone To engirdle the waist of the mountain lone— A lover's pledge from the stately sea To the distant mountain, fair is sh...