Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_INLANDER" id="THE_INLANDER"></SPAN>THE INLANDER</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I never climb a high hill</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Or gaze across the lea,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">But, Oh, beyond the two of them,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Beyond the height and blue of them,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">I'm looking for the sea.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A blue sea&mdash;a crooning sea&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">A grey sea lashed with foam&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">But, Oh, to take the drift of it,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">To know the surge and lift of it,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And 'tis I am longing for it as the homeless long for home.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I never dream at night-time</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Or close my eyes by day,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">But there I have the might of it,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">The wind-whipped, sun-drenched sight of it,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">That calls my soul away.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Oh, deep dreams and happy dreams,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Its dreaming still I'd be,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">For still the land I'm waking in,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 4em;">'Tis that my heart is breaking in,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And 'tis far where I'd be sleeping with the blue waves over me.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />