Thule

Thule written by Walter de la Mare

Poems (1906)

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If thou art sweet as they are sad
       Who on the shores of Time's salt sea
Watch on the dim horizon fade
       Ships bearing love to night and thee;

If past all beacons Hope hath lit
       In the dark wanderings of the deep
They who unwilling traverse it
       Dream not till dawn unseal their sleep;

Ah, cease not in thy winds to mock
       Us, who yet wake, but cannot see
Thy distant shores; who at each shock
       Of the waves' onset faint for thee!

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