Of distant blues, where water and sky divide,

Urging their engines against wind and tide,

And all so small and slow

They seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.

The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,

Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,

Takes my ear, in the veering

Baffled wind, as rearing

Upright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;

And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;