Moon-lit sea coast, wild rose blowing,

Smack of salt, and gray gull’s cry:

Night that is wild with the exultation

Of the bellowing breath from a cool, clear sky:

Green waves swinging down the moon-path

Pause and lean and break and roar,

Making full majestic music,

As they pound the sounding shore.

Oh, to forget! half-mad with moon-light,

And toss with the cold waves where they go,