Impartially on drift-weed, sand or stone.

You make us believe that we can outlive death,

You make us for an instant, for your sake,

Burn, like stretched silver of a wave,

Not breaking, but about to break.

Land’s End

The shores of the world are ours, the solitary

Beaches that bear no fruit, nor any flowers,

Only the harsh sea-grass that the wind harries

Hours on unbroken hours.