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+------ Thema: Procter, Bryan Waller: THE SEA IN CALM. (/showthread.php?tid=17444)
Procter, Bryan Waller: THE SEA IN CALM. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007
Bryan Waller Procter
1790 - 1874
THE SEA IN CALM.
LOOK what immortal floods the sunset pours
Upon us! Mark how still (as though in dreams
Bound) the once wild and terrible Ocean seems !
How silent are the winds ! No billow roars,
But all is tranquil as Elysian shores ;
The silver margin which aye runneth round
The moon-enchanted sea hath here no sound :
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
What ! is the giant of the ocean dead,
Whose strength was all unmatched beneath the sun ?
No : he reposes. Now his toils are done,
More quiet than the babbling brooks is he.
So mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be.