Ballads of Lost Haven - A Book of the Sea by Bliss Carman
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page 14 of 69 (20%)
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The hills where I would be.
"O Yanna, Adrianna, Over the hills of sea The wind calls and the morning comes, And I must forth from thee. "But Yanna, Adrianna, Keep watch above the sea; And when the weary time is o'er, Dear Life, come back to me!" "O Garvin, bonny Garvin--" She murmurs in her dream, And smiles a moment in her sleep To hear the white gulls scream. Then with the storm foreboding Far in the dim gray South, He kissed her not upon the cheek Nor on the burning mouth, But once above the forehead Before he turned away; And ere the morning light stole in, That golden lock was gray. "O Yanna, Adrianna--" The wind moans to the sea; And down the sluices of the dawn |
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