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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 15. ARAN MOR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.
First Line: Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep
Last Line: On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History
First Line: Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep
Last Line: On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History
Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep
And swift translucent lonelinesses hide
The swans that through the purple shallows glide
By pearl-white sands where saint and Druid sleep;
Here Enda, gathering his island sheep,
Beheld the moon with silver magic guide
Dark waves, and found beyond the yearning tide
The Mystery that moves upon the deep.
Still in the sunrise secret splendors burn,
For though his cell with weeds be overspread,
A host of angels seek the wind-swept height;
And as of old, when ocean meadows turn
To flaming mist, their quiet pinions shed
On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light.
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