Reprinted by permission from the "Lord of Misrule", by Alfred Noyes. Copyright, 1915, by Frederick A. Stokes Company


THE SEA IS HIS

The Sea is His: He made it,

Black gulf and sunlit shoal,

From battered bight to where the long

Leagues of Atlantic roll:

Small strait and ceaseless ocean

He bade each one to be:

The Sea is His: He made it—