Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — THE SEA AT EBB. [ARTICLE]

THE SEA AT EBB.

A/a? the mountains rise, And the broad estuary widens put, j AU sunshine:,, wheeling round and round about Seaward a white bird flies. ; A blrdT Nay. seems it rather in these eyes A spirit, o’er Eternity’s dim sea, ~ “ Calling, “Come thou where all w# glad souls be!” v O life, O silent shore, Where we sit patientO great sea beyond To which wo turn with solemn hope and fond, Hut sorrowful no more; A l!,ttlc while, and then we. too. shall soar I.ike white-winged sea-birds into the infinite deep, Till then thou, Father, ’will lourspirits keep! —Pinal! Mulock Crajk.