SEA-HAZE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 78

SEA-HAZE.

"Words tare.' „as winds, 'the 'limpid' _ •streams Flowing, .as thought, in ukplumbeaV lucent TTiavea " ' ' • That beat strange 'music Irom the .spirit CKV«S | , . -, Of heart .and. brain, -and -shape th«m into ' dreams. <We see >* 'wondrous .sky above ,us beams,— W« dream, a golden shopver «' "bosom , laves:' We .see and >hear old •Ocean, how he ' graves,— 1 'We dream his ' billow cold with -beauty 'teems. • , - ik. cloud steals over us; — ah, think^of those "Who -in the shadow of the Cyclops loved, -Nor, though -they knew his anger, feared its fail! / , A danger over' us its 'menace throws, — -Tn^ -nearest -danger Jove is 'sweetest .proved, . 1 Aiid 'seeing fetas* and- 'deaths, yet iscorno / -them,- all. , . - \ '' "Ehia wwMtt- .white - nMmnuring languorous summer - flay ' Tires Ocean!s self of 'beating' nip 'his foam, ■And 'waves rest, aighingj :never more --jO ( roam.,.-' . , From Pegasus' curved beach and sandy bay. Behold! the yellow- flash from wmd-dunes Sleeps there Danae in her scented -home Secure from all "save Jove in azure dome? Her eon shell skim 'wind-winged the wave .and spray. Yea, love ; the sea is rousing from afar ; A *wina awakes, and jmsts_are born© aside, - , _ it Bee, I see, where lapptfd in. sleep J. dreamed: , From radiant TSast comes Qytherea, a ater, 'A thousand becks ■ flash from the rising tide, " , .. „ I hear • the Gorgon where yon white ,guii jurreamed. , ■ JOHAK2IES C. ,-ANDBBSEH.