Show beyond lifes low across the harbor and lluu across the bar A dream voice calls me outward and lures me from afar in the mist upon the mountain the mast upon the bay I 1 see a hand that draws me on and points me tar away how aches my soul with longing to 01 ol low where it becks with loathing tor the idle wharves the rotting hulls and decks and oh to pass the gates of foam t rise ot evening star and seek a living moving sea beyond the harbor bar for here the dimpling waves sway to rock the pa anted skiff or lap in languid change the tide against the scornful cliff the bay lies faintly smiling where va grant breezes pass to die before they reach its rim of sparse salt savored grass the days are long and listless the nights are slow and still and idle silence wraps the bhore and broods upon the hill but oh to hear once moie the sea fierce willed to malm or mar stout ships that brae its fur belond the harbor bar I 1 life to breathe its briny breath to dare its driving gales to woo the winds of winter with white and shining sails to feel beneath my feet once more the leap of noble ship the ting of spray against ray brow ita kiss upon my lip to scorn the threat of sullen seas or howl of the blast to sing to the rattle of icy shrouds or creak of the straining mast to follow the llight ot a gleaming gull to storm roasts afar to aln I 1 w 11 of waves beyond the harbor bar faint a 1 ibor and fair aaros the bai how shi the lane of light leada to life afar and oh to icat path once more and lind that toeing sea that lies be this land locked bay and eau calls me in life to 11 ind laboi upon the beav iri ie i in death t 11 d iw 1 its depths a sound a 1 dreamless sleep swaim by the softly singing tides with ken helm and spar A sallo rest 11 a sailors grave beyond tl e hirt 01 bir stella I 1 wi 1 alap in sunset maga 71 P |