SEA-DREAMS
I satupon the mossy rocksBeside the southern sea,While overhead the summer cloudsWere drifting lazily.I watched their purple shadows trailAcross the sea and hideWithin the hollows of the wavesThat rode the rising tide.Sometimes the little flakes of foamDashed up in twinkling spray;And out along their silver pathsThe ships sailed far away.As through the sun I followed themWith straining, eager eyes,From out the sparkling waves I sawA shining vision rise.It seemed a ghostly castle white,With battlement and tower,That hung on the horizon’s vergeBy some unearthly power.I saw its spectral turrets gleamAs white as ivory,And wondered who the wizard kingThat reigned upon the sea.—But while, with breathless gaze, I watchedThis castle, by and byIt vanished in the underworldBeyond the sea and sky!
I satupon the mossy rocksBeside the southern sea,While overhead the summer cloudsWere drifting lazily.I watched their purple shadows trailAcross the sea and hideWithin the hollows of the wavesThat rode the rising tide.Sometimes the little flakes of foamDashed up in twinkling spray;And out along their silver pathsThe ships sailed far away.As through the sun I followed themWith straining, eager eyes,From out the sparkling waves I sawA shining vision rise.It seemed a ghostly castle white,With battlement and tower,That hung on the horizon’s vergeBy some unearthly power.I saw its spectral turrets gleamAs white as ivory,And wondered who the wizard kingThat reigned upon the sea.—But while, with breathless gaze, I watchedThis castle, by and byIt vanished in the underworldBeyond the sea and sky!
I satupon the mossy rocksBeside the southern sea,While overhead the summer cloudsWere drifting lazily.
I satupon the mossy rocks
Beside the southern sea,
While overhead the summer clouds
Were drifting lazily.
I watched their purple shadows trailAcross the sea and hideWithin the hollows of the wavesThat rode the rising tide.
I watched their purple shadows trail
Across the sea and hide
Within the hollows of the waves
That rode the rising tide.
Sometimes the little flakes of foamDashed up in twinkling spray;And out along their silver pathsThe ships sailed far away.
Sometimes the little flakes of foam
Dashed up in twinkling spray;
And out along their silver paths
The ships sailed far away.
As through the sun I followed themWith straining, eager eyes,From out the sparkling waves I sawA shining vision rise.
As through the sun I followed them
With straining, eager eyes,
From out the sparkling waves I saw
A shining vision rise.
It seemed a ghostly castle white,With battlement and tower,That hung on the horizon’s vergeBy some unearthly power.
It seemed a ghostly castle white,
With battlement and tower,
That hung on the horizon’s verge
By some unearthly power.
I saw its spectral turrets gleamAs white as ivory,And wondered who the wizard kingThat reigned upon the sea.
I saw its spectral turrets gleam
As white as ivory,
And wondered who the wizard king
That reigned upon the sea.
—But while, with breathless gaze, I watchedThis castle, by and byIt vanished in the underworldBeyond the sea and sky!
—But while, with breathless gaze, I watched
This castle, by and by
It vanished in the underworld
Beyond the sea and sky!