Poetic

This morning I listened to a symphonic poem "The Ocean" --- music by Henry K. Hadley (1871 - 1937). The music was inspired by a poem "Ocean Ode" by Louis K. Anspacher (1878 - 1947).

"Let the wind with its shrill lash
Whip the waves until they gnash
And spume and foam and seethe and fret
And gape their jagged jaws to spet
Their angry spray anent the sky;
And rear their towerering might to try

To quench the heaven's sullen ashes
And fulminating flashes
Leaping through the smoky clouds,

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Rise, thou monster muddy-muscled
Million-armed Briareus!
Now if ever thou hast tussled,
Wrestle with thy Protean thews.
Engulf the wind that scornful mocks
Thy hoary head and spray-dashed locks.

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Rise, oh rise!
Blot the light and drown the skies :
Stoop, thou Heaven, ope thy gate,
Rise, oh rise!
Death's abroad and will be sate.

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The Undines dance at the curving edge
Where falls the spray;
They move to the murmurs of the sedge
That darks with mystery the ledge,
In the moon's pale day. ...."

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