As shingle slides upon the shore <br />this gentle summer night, we stroll, <br />the great bear pointing to the pole <br />as if to prove what stars are for. <br /> <br />A far light winks once then is gone <br />as shingle slides upon the shore; <br />impermanence we know is law <br />and, hand in hand, we wander on <br /> <br />bemused by moonlight on the sea <br />and troubled by a distant war; <br />as shingle slides upon the shore <br />I turn to you and you to me <br /> <br />and though, above, the jet-planes roar, <br />the universe has come to be <br />a moon that's mirrored in the sea <br />as shingle slides upon the shore.<br /><br />Robin Skelton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dover-beach-revisited-2/
