id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9584 Whittier, John Greenleaf The Tent on the Beach, and other poems Part 4 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier .txt text/plain 11199 1057 97 Pitched their white tent where sea-winds blew. And ships, with upturned keels, sail like a sea the sky. 'Twixt white sea-waves and sand-hills brown, Long and vain shall thy watching be Ye saw in the light of breaking day Dead faces looking up cold and white And the voice of the old man answered her And life and death in my old-time lay Thy sweet laugh in shade and gleam The old loved voice she seemed to hear Now by the white-beached sea. "O Esbern Snare!" a sweet voice said, "O love!" he cried, "let me look to-day Thou'lt play with Esbern Snare's heart and eyes!" Lean down unto the white-lipped sea The Reader said, "shall all things come. The white flash of a sea-bird's wing, On smoother beaches no sea-birds light, "The sea and the rocks are dumb," they said 'T was on a May-day of the far old year ./cache/9584.txt ./txt/9584.txt