Spirits in Bondage by C.S. Lewis;

Author:C.S. Lewis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
Publisher: Bellingham, WA
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

XVII

THE OCEAN STRAND

O leave the labouring roadways of the town,

The shifting faces and the changeful hue

Of markets, and broad echoing streets that drown

The heart’s own silent music. Though they too

Sing in their proper rhythm, and still delight

The friendly ear that loves warm human kind,

Yet it is good to leave them all behind,

Now when from lily dawn to purple night

Summer is queen,

Summer is queen in all the happy land.

Far, far away among the valleys green

Let us go forth and wander hand in hand

Beyond those solemn hills that we have seen

So often welcome home the falling sun

Into their cloudy peaks when day was done—

Beyond them till we find the ocean strand

And hear the great waves run,

With the waste song whose melodies I’d follow

And weary not for many a summer day,

Born of the vaulted breakers arching hollow

Before they flash and scatter into spray.

On, if we should be weary of their play

Then I would lead you further into land

Where, with their ragged walls, the stately rocks

Shut in smooth courts and paved with quiet sand

To silence dedicate. The sea-god’s flocks

Have rested here, and mortal eyes have seen

By great adventure at the dead of noon

A lonely nereid drowsing half a-swoon

Buried beneath her dark and dripping locks.

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