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the sea-weed dries Its tangled tresses in the warm air, That seems to ooze from the far blue skies, Where not a white gull on white wing flies. The mollusc gleams like a gem amid The scurf and the clustered green sea-grapes, Whose trellis is but the rock's bare side, Whose husbandman but the tide that drapes. The little sandpiper tilts and picks His food, on the wet sea-marges hid, Till sudden a wave comes in and flicks Him off, then flashes away to bid Another frighten him--as it did. O sweet is the world of living things, And sweet are the mingled sea and shore! It seems as if I never again Shall find life ill--as oft before. As if my days should come as the clouds Come yonder--and vanish without wings; As if all sorrow that ever shrouds My soul and darkly about it clings Had lost forever its ravenings. As if I knew with a deeper sense That good alone is ultimate; That never an evil wrought of God Or man came truly out of hate. That Better springs from the heart of Worse, As calm from the heaving elements; That all things born to the Universe May suffer and perish utterly hence, But never refute its Innocence. OFF THE IRISH COAST Gulls on the wind, Crying! crying! Are you the ghosts Of Erin's dead? Of the forlorn Whose days went sighing Ever for Beauty That ever fled? Ever for Light That never kindled? Ever for Song No lips have sung? Ever for Joy That ever dwindled? Ever for Love that stung? THE FAIRIES OF GOD Last night I slipt from the banks of dream And swam in the currents of God, On a tide where His fairies were at play, Catching salt tears in their little white hands, For human hearts; And dancing, dancing, in gala bands, On the currents of God; And singing, singing:-- _There is no wind blows here or spray-- Wind upon us! Only the waters ripple away Under our feet as we gather tears. God has made mortals for the years, Us for alway! God has made mortals full of fears, Fears for the night and fears for the day. If they would free them of grief that sears, If they would keep what love endears, If they would lay no more lilies on biers-- Let them say! For we
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