Beside the idle summer sea, <br />And in the vacant summer days, <br />Light Love came fluting down the ways, <br />Where you were loitering with me. <br /> <br />Who have not welcomed even as we, <br />That jocund minstrel and his lays <br />Beside the idle summer sea <br />And in the vacant summer days? <br /> <br />We listened, we were fancy-free; <br />And lo! in terror and amaze <br />We stood alone – alone and gaze <br />With an implacable memory <br />Beside the idle summer sea.<br /><br />William Ernest Henley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beside-the-idle-summer-sea/
