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BALLAD OF THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the song the sea-wind sings
Last Line: Her central fires make one vast flame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


What is the song the sea-wind sings --
The old, old song it singeth for aye?
When abroad it stretches its mighty wings
And driveth the white clouds far away, --
What is the song it sings to-day?
From fire and tumult the white world came,
When all was a mist of driven spray
And the whirling fragments of a frame!

What is the song the sea-wind sings --
The old, old song it singeth for aye?
It seems to breathe a thousand things
Ere the world grew sad and old and grey --
Of the dear gods banished far astray --
Of strange wild rumours of joy and shame!
The Earth is old, so old, To-day --
Blind and halt and weary and lame.

What is the song the sea-wind sings --
The old, old song it singeth for aye?
Like a trumpet blast its voice out-rings,
The world spins down the darksome way!
It crieth aloud in wild dismay,
The Earth that from fire and tumult came
Draws swift to her weary end To-day,
Her fires are fusing for that last Flame!

ENVOY

What singeth the sea-wind thus for aye,
From fire and tumult the white world came!
What is the sea-wind's cry To-day --
Her central fires make one vast flame!





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