You and the Sea (verse)
Phillips, Charles
Tou and the Sea All day the sea in my heart— All day the sound of the sea, surrounding and holding me, All day the breast-high tide against my beating side; And the tide flows and the day...
...The wind is high in my high elm tree— High in the mast the wind blows free...
...All day the sundering sea: What is near is far, what is far is near— The words that I speak, the words that I hear, Are lost in the sound of the sea...
...But the world is a wide, wide waste to me— Nothing in all the world for me But you and the sea, You and the sea...
...The wind is quick in the waving grain— Strong blows the wind on the rolling main ; The shadows pass on the windy grass— But a clouded deep and a cleaving keel Is all that I see, is all that I feel Nothing in all the world for me but you and the sea, you and the sea, All day the sea in my heart...
...Voices around me, the coming and going— But no sound to me but the tideways flowing...
...And the tide flows and the day goes, And in all the wide, wide world for me There is nothing but you and the sea, you and the sea...
...And the tide flows and the day goes, And the moon is up, and a single star, And the wind is down, and the world is still...
...Charles Phillips...
...Nothing in all the world for me But you and the sea, you and the sea...
Vol. 12 • September 1930 • No. 21
