SEA CALL

My old love for the water has come back again --
I had forgotten its surging, so long, so long away;
Sapphire blue in the sunlight and green-grey in the rain,
And the same waves cresting, and the same sharp spray;
There was left a wave in my heart when I went to the inland towns,
Something that moved and murmurmed in the days when I forgot;
Vivid flowers of the gardens or thick long grass of the downs --
What were the sweets of the summer days, where the calling waves
were not?

My old love for the water has come back once more;
The wave of the deep draws full, and the wave in my heart lifts
high;
This is my own old country and my own old shore . . .
And I cannot leave the water till the day I die.

Margaret Widdemer


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