Duo Dalùna - On this Island: III. Seascape

Look, stranger, at this island now
The leaping light
for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here and silent be,
That through the channels
of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.
Here at a small the field's ending pause
Where the chalk wall
falls to the foam
and its tall ledges
Oppose the pluck
And knock of the tide,
And the shingle scrambles
after the sucking surf,
And a gull lodges
A moment on its sheer side.
Far off like floating seeds the ships
Diverge on urgent
voluntary errands
And the full view
Indeed may enter
And move in memory
as now these clouds do,
That pass the harbour mirror
And all the summer
through the water saunter.

Written by:
Wystan Hugh Auden

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