the swimmer

• sea pictures'ın sözleri a. lindsey gordon tarafından yazılmış olan 5. ve sonuncu şarkısı.
  
  with short, sharp violent lights made vivid,
  to southward far as the sight can roam,
  only the swirl of the surges livid,
  the sees that climb and the surfs that comb.
  
  only the crag and the cliff to nor'ward,
  and the rocks receding, and reefs flung forward,
  waifs wreck'd seaward and wasted shoreward,
  on shallows sheeted with flaming foam.
  
  a grim, gray coast and a seaboard ghastly,
  and shores trod seldom by feet of men -
  where the batter'd hull and the broken mast lie,
  they have lain embedded these long years ten.
  
  love! love! when we wandered here together,
  hand in hand! hand in hand through the sparkling weather,
  from the heights and hollows of fern and heather,
  
  god surely loved us a little then.
  
  the skies were fairer and shores were firmer -
  the blue sea over the bright sand roll'd;
  babble and prattle, and ripple and murmur,
  sheen of silver and glamour of gold.
  sheen of silver and glamour of gold.
  
  so, girl with tempest and wing'd with thunder
  and clad with lightning and shod with sleet,
  and strong winds treading the swift waves under
  the flying rollers with frothy feet.
  
  one gleam like a bloodshot sword-blade swims on
  the sky line, staining the green gulf crimson,
  a death-stroke fiercely dealt by a dim sun
  that strikes through his stormy winding sheet.
  
  o brave white horses! you gather and gallop,
  the storm sprite loosens the gusty rains;
  o brave white horses! you gather and gallop,
  the storm sprite loosens the gusty rains;
  
  now the stoutest ship were the frailest shallop
  in your hollow backs, on your high-arched manes.
  i would ride as never a man has ridden
  in your sleepy, swirling surges hidden;
  
  i would ride as never a man has ridden
  to gulfs foreshadow'd through strifes forbidden,
  where no light wearies and no love wanes.
  where no love wanes.