THE SEA WHISPER.
N the sandy beach I sate, The dark weed round me strown,Listening to the wind that brought Its hollow message, lone— A whisper from the sea, And what it said to me.On the glistening, fading shore Were thrown in careless heap,Shells and flowers of the sea, Sweet offspring of the deep;Still I listened to the wind that brought The whisper of the sea, And what it said to me.
A voice I heard from every shell, In whispers softly come;
