Out of the starless night that covers me, <br />(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!) <br />Black as the cloud of some tremendous spell, <br />The susurration of the sighing sea <br />Sounds like the sobbing whisper of two souls <br />That tremble in a passion of farewell. <br /> <br />To the desires that trebled life in me, <br />(O melancholy of the wind that rolls!) <br />The dreams that seemed the future to foretell, <br />The hopes that mounted herward like the sea, <br />To all the sweet things sent on happy souls, <br />I cannot choose but bid a mute farewell. <br /> <br />And to the girl who was so much to me <br />(O lamentation of this wind that rolls!) <br />Since I may not the life of her compel, <br />Out of the night, beside the sounding sea, <br />Full of the love that might have blent our souls, <br />A sad, a last, a long, supreme farewell.<br /><br />William Ernest Henley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-love-by-the-sea/
