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Written on the Sea Shore. – Octobre, 1784 - ZaunköniG - 27.05.2007
Written on the Sea Shore. – Octobre, 1784
On some rude fragment of the rocky shore,
Where on the fractured cliff the billows break,
Musing, my solitary seat I take,
And listen to the deep and solemn roar.
O’er the dark waves the winds tempestuous howl;
The screaming sea-bird quits the troubled sea:
But the wild gloomy scene has charms for me,
And suits the mournful temper of my soul.
Already shipwrecked by the storms of fate,
Like the poor mariner, methinks, I stand,
Cast on a rock; who sees the distant land
From whence no succor comes – or comes too late.
Faint and more faint are heard feeble cries,
‘Till in the rising tide the exhausted sufferer dies.