Southern garland . TO A SEA-SHELL RIEND of my chamber—O thou spiral shellThat murmurest of the ever-murmuring sea !Repeating with eternal constancyWhatever memories the wave can tell;Whatever harmonies may rise and sadness in the deep may be:They are the Oceans, and desired of thee;Thou treasurest what thou dost love so well. So all my heart is one voluted fold,Shielding one face, and evermore it seemsUpon the threshold of the prying Day,Hid in the tangle of reluctant dreams ;And in the noontide, and the evening light illumines secresies the EOWEN FALLS, MILFOR
Southern garland . TO A SEA-SHELL RIEND of my chamber—O thou spiral shellThat murmurest of the ever-murmuring sea !Repeating with eternal constancyWhatever memories the wave can tell;Whatever harmonies may rise and sadness in the deep may be:They are the Oceans, and desired of thee;Thou treasurest what thou dost love so well. So all my heart is one voluted fold,Shielding one face, and evermore it seemsUpon the threshold of the prying Day,Hid in the tangle of reluctant dreams ;And in the noontide, and the evening light illumines secresies the EOWEN FALLS, MILFORD SOUND West Ulind ^^^?jm(^JfiS^ waterfall that falkst to the sea, Falling for ever to white virginalsOf olden melody ! thy voice I hearLi molten moments of the summer starsWhen the great sun is dead in majesty. From the white fields of home like thee I cameImpetuous to the cliffs, and I have pouredTreasure of love on altars cold, as thouHast showered thy rainbow on the icy rocks,That have not felt thy kiss,—and I would die. Athwart the hollows of the moon-fed airCome eider tremors of thy dying as child-tired eyelids droopUpon a wavy bosom, rocked with loyePoured from the heaven for ever like thy song. The moon is kissing thy keen for her barrenness, and all her faceCreeps to thy white arc dow^n the 1 have nestled, yearning with wild the umber chancels of a soul.
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