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SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: PRELUDE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the little songs
Last Line: Turning her face to the sun.
Subject(s): Songs; Children; Sea; Innocence; Spring; Happiness; Love


These are the little songs
The wild sea children sang,
When the first gold arch of light
From rim to zenith sprang;
When all the glad clean joys
Of being came to birth,
Out of the darkling womb
Of the morning of the earth.
And these are the lyric songs
The earthborn children sing,
When wild-wood laughter throngs
The shy bird-throats of spring;
When there's not a joy of the heart
But flies like a flag unfurled,
And the swelling buds bring back
The April of the world.
These are the April songs
The vernal children sing,
When the yellow pollen dust
Floats on the stream in spring;
When the swelling streams go down
Through the deep and grassy floors,
And the gold-fish and the turtle
Bask at their river doors.
And these are the innocent songs
The forest children sing,
When the whippoorwill's unrest
Is a pulse in the heart of spring;
When the dark of the frail new moon
Is a globe of dim sea green,
And no soul fears what its strange
Sea-memories may mean.
These are the happy songs
The first sea children made,
When the red morning roused them
In the deep forest shade;
When Hillborn said to Seaborn,
"Sweetheart, but thou art fair!"
And the shining silver sea-mist
Made moonstones in her hair.
These are the lilting songs
The dark sea children knew,
When the sands emerged, and the sea
Was a lotus of Indian blue;
When, blossom by wind-blown blossom,
Their virginal zones undone,
The world was a wide sunflower
Turning her face to the sun.





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