The Complete Poems. Генри Уодсуорт Лонгфелло

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SEAWEED

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      When descends on the Atlantic

       The gigantic

      Storm-wind of the equinox,

      Landward in his wrath he scourges

       The toiling surges,

      Laden with seaweed from the rocks:

      From Bermuda's reefs; from edges

       Of sunken ledges,

      In some far-off, bright Azore;

      From Bahama, and the dashing,

       Silver-flashing

      Surges of San Salvador;

      From the tumbling surf, that buries

       The Orkneyan skerries,

      Answering the hoarse Hebrides;

      And from wrecks of ships, and drifting

       Spars, uplifting

      On the desolate, rainy seas;—

      Ever drifting, drifting, drifting

       On the shifting

      Currents of the restless main;

      Till in sheltered coves, and reaches

       Of sandy beaches,

      All have found repose again.

      So when storms of wild emotion

       Strike the ocean

      Of the poet's soul, erelong

      From each cave and rocky fastness,

       In its vastness,

      Floats some fragment of a song:

      Front the far-off isles enchanted,

       Heaven has planted

      With the golden fruit of Truth;

      From the flashing surf, whose vision

       Gleams Elysian

      In the tropic clime of Youth;

      From the strong Will, and the Endeavor

       That forever

      Wrestle with the tides of Fate

      From the wreck of Hopes far-scattered,

       Tempest-shattered,

      Floating waste and desolate;—

      Ever drifting, drifting, drifting

       On the shifting

      Currents of the restless heart;

      Till at length in books recorded,

       They, like hoarded

      Household words, no more depart.