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Through Time and Bitter Distance

from Dreaming Through Twilight by The Quarantettes

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Words by E. Pauline Johnson

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Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore
The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine,
May freeze, and still, and bind the waves at war,
Ere you will ever know, O! Heart of mine,
That I have sought, reflected in the blue
Of these sea depths, some shadow of your eyes;
Have hoped the laughing waves would sing of you,
But this is all my starving sight descries—
I.
Far out at sea a sail
Bends to the freshening breeze,
Yields to the rising gale,
That sweeps the seas;
II.
Yields, as a bird wind-tossed,
To saltish waves that fling
Their spray, whose rime and frost
Like crystals cling
III.
To canvas, mast and spar,
Till, gleaming like a gem,
She sinks beyond the far
Horizon’s hem.

IV.
Lost to my longing sight,
And nothing left to me
Save an oncoming night,—
An empty sea.

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from Dreaming Through Twilight, released October 4, 2020

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