Woman's Love Letters

<h2><SPAN name="Sea-Song57" id="Sea-Song57"></SPAN>Sea-Song.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It sings to me, it sings to me,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The shore-blown voice of the blithesome sea!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of its world of gladness all untold,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of its heart of green, and its mines of gold,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And desires that leap and flee.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It moans to me, it moans to me!<br/></span> <span class="i0">The storm-stirred voice of the restive sea!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Of the vain dismay and the yearning pain<br/></span> <span class="i2">For hopes that will never be born again<br/></span> <span class="i0">From the womb of the wavering sea.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It calls to me, it calls to me,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The luring voice of the rebel sea!<br/></span> <span class="i2">And I long with a love that is born of tears<br/></span> <span class="i2">For the wild fresh life, and the glorying fears,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For the quest and the mystery.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg&nbsp;58]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It wails to me, it wails to me,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of the deep dark graves in the yawning sea;<br/></span> <span class="i2">And I hear the voice of a boy that is gone.<br/></span> <span class="i2">But the lad sleeps sound till the judgment-dawn<br/></span> <span class="i0">In the heart of the wind-swept sea.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg&nbsp;59]</SPAN></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 35%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />