Songs of Sea and Sail

<h2>WHEN.</h2> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When western winds are blowing soft</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Across the Island Sound;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When every sail that draws aloft</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Is swollen true and round;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When yellow shores along the lee</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Slope upward to the sky;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When opal bright the land and sea</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">In changeful contact lie;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When idle yachts at anchor swim</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Above a phantom shape;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When spires of canvas dot the rim</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Which curves from cape to cape;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When sea-weed strewn the ebbing tide</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Pours eastward to the main;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When clumsy coasters side by side</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Tack in and out again&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">When such a day is mine to live,</span><br/> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</SPAN></span></p> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">What has the world beyond to give?</span><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />