My Arthur, whom I shall not sec More than my brothers are to me. I HEAR the moise about thy keel; I see the sailor at the wheel. Thou bringest the sailor to his wife, And, thy dark freight, a vanish'd life. So bring him: we have idle dreams: The fools of habit, sweeter seems To rest beneath the clover sod, The chalice of the grapes of God; Than if with thee the roaring wells & Should toss with tangle and with shells. i T.t. Calm is the morn without a sound, The chesnut pattering to the ground: Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, That twinkle into green and gold: Calm and still light on yon great plain . • J That sweeps with all its autumn Ijowers, And crowded farms and lessening tower-, To mingle with the bounding main: |