When the sun sets over the long blue wave <br />I spring from my couch of rest, <br />And I hurtle and boom over leagues of foam <br />That toss in the weltering west, <br />I pipe a hymn to the headlands high, <br />My comrades forevermore, <br />And I chase the tricksy curls of foam <br />O'er the glimmering sandy shore. <br /> <br />The moon is my friend on clear, white nights <br />When I ripple her silver way, <br />And whistle blithely about the rocks <br />Like an elfin thing at play; <br />But anon I ravin with cloud and mist <br />And wail 'neath a curdled sky, <br />When the reef snarls yon like a questing beast, <br />And the frightened ships go by. <br /> <br />I scatter the dawn across the sea <br />Like wine of amber flung <br />From a crystal goblet all far and fine <br />Where the morning star is hung; <br />I blow from east and I blow from west <br />Wherever my longing be- <br />The wind of the land is a hindered thing <br />But the ocean wind is free!<br /><br />Lucy Maud Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-of-the-sea-wind/
