| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 69. Sea-Grief |
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| ALONG the serried coast the Southerly raves, | |
| Grey birds scream landward through the distance hoar, | |
| And, swinging from the dim confounded shore, | |
| The everlasting boom of broken waves | |
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| Like muffled thunder rolls about the graves | 5 |
| Of all the wonder-lands and lives of yore, | |
| Whose bones asunder bleach for evermore, | |
| In sobbing chasms and under choking caves: | |
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| O breaking heart—whose only rest is rage, | |
| White tossing arms, and lips that kiss and part | 10 |
| In lonely dreams of love’s wild ecstasy, | |
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| Not the mean earth thy suffering can assuage | |
| Nor highest heaven fulfil thy hungry heart, | |
| O fair full-bosomed passionate weeping sea. | |
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