Excerpt from The Cradle of the Rose
Unseen and strong, the brightness underlying
Not less than storm, whose rivers blindly run
True as a circling star, yet still defying
The courses of the sun;
Knowest thou also "neath his far uprising
Thy native source in times forever gone,
That thou hast held since days beyond surmising
The Highways of the Dawn?
And warm with deep desire - a faithful presage -
Sweep"st the bleak skerries of Newfoundland"s shore,
Smoking with fog, undaunted by the message
Of iron Labrador?
Ah, sweet the quest along that path Elysian,
Primrose, or gold, or under midnight skies
Levelled in leaping silver to the vision
Of weary, wakeful eyes!
The Gulf Stream. - M. M.
The swimmer was floating on his back, a mile or so from shore, his clear-cut profile almost level with the silken list of a singularly quiet sea.
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