THE SEA AT NIGHTFALL


BEHIND the verge of western hills

The sun has sunk,

Rivers of light to niggard rills

Have shrunk.

Beyond the melancholy sea

Of separate lives

Loom shores which Love still holds in fee

(Nor strives

With intermittent promptings of the heart

To build song's Whole from each disfavouring part).


March 17, 1936.


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