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Seascape Lyrics by Stephen Spender

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THERE are some days the happy ocean lies
Like an unfingered harp, below the land.
Afternoon gilds all the silent wires
Into a burning music of the eyes.
On mirroring paths between those fine-strung fires
The shore, laden with horses, roses, spires,
Wanders in water, imaged above ribbed sand.

The azure ecstasy of the air tires
And a sigh, like a woman’s, from inland
Brushes the chords with shadowy hand,
Drawing across the waves some bird’s sharp cries,
A bell, a gasp, from distant hidden shires:
These deep as anchors, the hushing wave buries.

Then, from the shore, two zigzag butterflies,
Like errant dog roses, cross the bright strand
And on the ocean face search the salt byres
For foam-flowers growing in reflected skies.
They drown. Witnesses understand
Such wings torn in such ritual sacrifice,

Remembering ships, treasures and cities,
Legendary heroes plumed with flame like pyres
Whose deeds and flesh on their day’s island
The timeless wave engulfed: their coins and eyes
Twisted by tides are, through the fingering mires
Of the masculine ocean, scarcely scanned,
While, above them, the harp assumes their sighs.

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