Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
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Title: Aylwin
Author: Theodore Watts-Dunton
Release Date: September 14, 2004 [eBook #13454]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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AYLWIN
With Two Appendices, One Containing a Note on the Character of D'arcy; the Other a Key to the Story, Reprinted from Notes and Queries by
THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
Author of 'The Coming of Love: Rhona Boswell's Story,' etc. etc.
TO C. J. R. IN REMEMBRANCE OF SUNNY DAYS AND STARLIT NIGHTS WHEN WE RAMBLED TOGETHER ON CRUMBLING CLIFFS THAT ARE NOW AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THIS EDITION OF A STORY WHICH HAS BEEN A LINK BETWEEN US IS INSCRIBED
CAUGHT IN THE EBBING TIDE
A REMINISCENCE OF RAXTOX CLIFFS
The mightiest Titan's stroke could not withstand An ebbing tide like this. These swirls denote How wind and tide conspire. I can but float To the open sea and strike no more for land. Farewell, brown cliffs, farewell, beloved sand Her feet have pressed--farewell, dear little boat Where Gelert,[Footnote] calmly sitting on my coat, Unconscious of my peril, gazes bland!
All dangers grip me save the deadliest, fear: Yet these air-pictures of the past that glide-- These death-mirages o'er the heaving tide-- Showing two lovers in an alcove clear, Will break my heart. I see them and I hear As there they sit at morning