WIND and SEA

A NIGHT PIECE by MILLET Written by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

Wind and sea and cloud  and cloud forsaking

Mirth of moonlight

Where the storm leaves free

Heaven awhile

for all the wrath of waking

Wind and sea.

Bright with glad mad rapture,

Fierce with glee,

Laughs the moon, borne on past cloud's overtaking

Fast, it seems, as wind or sail can flee.

One blown sail beneath her,

hardly making forth

wild winged for harbourage yet to be

Strives and leaps

And pants beneath the breaking

Wind and sea..............

*My father loved the ocean. He served on the big CPR ships in the 30's and 40's. He loved the sea so much he  and my mother bought a little piece of property out at Sooke and planted a cabin there. It faced the open ocean, and the waves pounded against the deck in winter, and kissed the rocky shore in summer. the sun rose and set on that place. He used to call it "Wind and Sea".......(.more on that  in a later blog........)

Photographs 2021