Sea Poems. Rice Cale Young

      The phantom moon in misty resurrection

      Arising from her sepulchre in the East

      And sparkling the dark waters —

      The unremembering moon!

      And covenants of star to faithful star,

      Dewy, like tears of God, across the sky;

      And under the moon's fair ring Orion running

      Forever in great war adown the West.

      What far, infinite nights!

      With cloud-horizons where the lightning slumbered

      Or wakened once and again with startled watch,

      Again to fall asleep

      And leave the moon-path free for all my thoughts

      To wander peacefully

      Away and still away

      Until the stars sighed out in dawn's great pallor,

      Just as the lands of my desire appeared.

      A SONG OF THE OLD VENETIANS