HILL 60

As some far swimmer, turning, views once more

England’s white cliffs, and strongly cleaves t’ward shore,

But, tide-encumbered, faints; so far and dear

Thy crystal arms and pillared throat appear,

Love, to thy soldier who makes earth his bed

In this grey catacomb of unnamed dead.

Thy voice, o’er tossing seas of eves and dawns,

Comes like dim music heard on magic lawns;