THE TRAIL FROM THE SEA
I took the trail to the wooded canyon,
The trail from the sea:
For I heard a calling in me,
A landward calling irresistible in me:
Have done with things of the sea—things of the soul;
Have done with waters that slip away from under you.
Have done with things faithless, things unfathomable and vain;
With the vast deeps of Time and the Hereafter.
The trail from the sea:
For I heard a calling in me,
A landward calling irresistible in me:
Have done with things of the sea—things of the soul;
Have done with waters that slip away from under you.
Have done with things faithless, things unfathomable and vain;
With the vast deeps of Time and the Hereafter.
Have done with the fog-breather, the fog-beguiler;
With the foam of the never-resting.
With the foam of the never-resting.
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