Milford Sound In Winter

William Gay 1865 (Scotland) – 1897



Dark ocean walls, majestically steep,
That dare the skies, that guard a solitude
Of straitened sea from every tempest rude
That uncontrolled molests the outer deep!
White pinnacles, where Summer suns will reap
A silent store of clouds, unloose the flood
That captive long in Winter's hold hath stood,
And wake the mountain mosses from their sleep!
Dark walls! white peaks! unravished silences!
Grey sinuous lane of solitary sea!
Wild cataracts plunging fearless from the height!
And glaciers patient through the centuries!
O would that my revering soul might be
Among your lonely shrines an eremite!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBAACDAEFGHFB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 98
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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