Hark, oh hark the elfin laughter <br />All the little waves along, <br />As if echoes speeding after <br />Mocked a merry merman's song! <br /> <br />All the gulls are out, delighting <br />In a wild, uncharted quest <br />See the first red sunshine smiting <br />Silver sheen of wing and breast! <br /> <br />Ho, the sunrise rainbow-hearted <br />Steals athwart the misty brine, <br />And the sky where clouds have parted <br />Is a bowl of amber wine! <br /> <br />Sweet, its cradle-lilt partaking, <br />Dreams that hover o'er the sea, <br />But the lyric of its waking <br />Is a sweeter thing to me! <br /> <br />Who would drowze in dull devotion <br />To his ease when dark is done, <br />And upon its breast the ocean <br />Like a jewel wears the sun? <br /> <br />"Up, forsake a lazy pillow!" <br />Calls the sea from cleft and cave, <br />Ho, for antic wind and billow <br />When the morn is on the wave!<br /><br />Lucy Maud Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/morning-along-shore/
