Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . yond, his glances seek Richmonds lone island, on whose farthest edge Breaks the wild surf oer Watts fatal ledge. Near the Two Lights, where dangerous waters glide. He hears Old Anthonys unceasing knell ;Through Portland Roads he hurries with the tide Past their white tower, and feels the rising swellThat rocks the skiffs in Simontons broad cove ; From Prebles rampart booms the sunset-gunOer Gushings Point, where erst a village throve ; And now the sunken sunCrimsons the wave, where gleaming silks outblownOnce scarfed a sea with priceless wreckage stre
Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . yond, his glances seek Richmonds lone island, on whose farthest edge Breaks the wild surf oer Watts fatal ledge. Near the Two Lights, where dangerous waters glide. He hears Old Anthonys unceasing knell ;Through Portland Roads he hurries with the tide Past their white tower, and feels the rising swellThat rocks the skiffs in Simontons broad cove ; From Prebles rampart booms the sunset-gunOer Gushings Point, where erst a village throve ; And now the sunken sunCrimsons the wave, where gleaming silks outblownOnce scarfed a sea with priceless wreckage strewn. To one who sits upon the cliff afar, Noting the waning splendors of the moves, a floating speck, behind the bar Of vStanfords ledge, and soon is lost to the lingering radiance of the west, With dome and slender steeples ranged tree embowered city on her crest Burns in a golden glow ;While warmer tints, that through the waters the far sails and mantle all the bay. — Abba Goo Id Woolso7i. i8. THE FIRST PARISH VANE Over the city hangs a mist,And the smell of the sea brings a thought of storm ;About the chimneys the smoke wreaths twist,And under the eaves the pigeons swarm ;East, north-east, like the finger of doom,Stcadilv pointing into the gloom,On theFirst Parish Spire is plainly seenThe vane which a century there hath oiveth it not a kiss ;Shadows it cleaves like the shadows of death. —James P. Baxter, 19
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