Sea Tryst (verse)
Johnson, Siddie Joe
Tryst Now that the mist is in, and no wind blows, And all of the world is a great grey silence, sleeping, I must go down to the place my lone heart knows And set my thoughts again to an old...
...This is the promise I made the child-that-was— Surcease and tryst when life is a beggar, crying— Surcease and tryst and the sweet familiar laws Of peace and a mist-hung shore and the dim gulls' circled flying...
...I must go back to the hearthstone of the sea, Now that the fires of quietness are flaming, Letting the fog and the darkness cradle me Close in an old content, too deep for naming...
...Siddie Joe Johnson...
...Tryst Now that the mist is in, and no wind blows, And all of the world is a great grey silence, sleeping, I must go down to the place my lone heart knows And set my thoughts again to an old tryst's keeping...
Vol. 12 • May 1930 • No. 4
