V.

But propt on sand and pebbles rolly-olly

How sweet (while briny breezes fan us lowly)

With half-dropt eyelids still,

Beneath a boat-side tarry, coally,

To watch the long white breakers drawing slowly

Up to the curling turn and foamy spill—

To hear far-off the wheezy Town-Crier calling,

"Oh, yes! Oh, yes!" Truly, TOBIAS mine,

This solitude à deux is most divine;

A Congress we—of Two; where no outfalling

Is possible. Our Anti-Labour line

Is wordlessly prolonged, stretched out beside the brine.