I hear the furious waters leap.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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A blue-black Nubian plucking oranges

At Jaffa by a sea of malachite,

In red tarboosh, green sash, and flowing white

Burnous—among the shadowy memories

That haunt me yet by these bleak northern seas

He lives for ever in my eyes’ delight,

Bizarre, superb in young immortal might—