Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — Ebb. [ARTICLE]

Ebb.

The tide Is out and on the bar. The short waves beat a harsh tattoo, While, etched upon the further blue, A patch of foam lies' like a star. Upon the mud before my feet The surf has carved fantastic forms; The wreckage of a hundred storms Is bedded where the currents meet. And here a flashing flock of gulls, A dervish crew, swings to and fro. Or swoops to pluck its prey and go Pirating through the sunken hulls. —James Owen Tryon.