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AT DIEPPE: 4. BEFORE THE SQUALL by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WIND IS RISING ON THE SEA
Last Line: THE SAILS THAT FLY BEFORE THE SQUALL.
Subject(s): DIEPPE, FRANCE; STORMS;
The wind is rising on the sea,
The windy white foam-dancers leap;
And the sea moans uneasily,
And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

Ridge after rocky ridge uplifts
Wild hands, and hammers at the land,
Scatters in liquid dust, and drifts
To death among the dusty sand.

On the horizon's nearing line,
Where the sky rests, a visible wall,
Grey in the offing, I divine
The sails that fly before the squall.



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