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SONG ON THE WATER (2) by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS MAD SEXTON'S BELL, TOLLING
Last Line: MOONILY.
Subject(s): SAILING & SAILORS; LOVE; SEAMEN; SAILS;

As mad sexton's bell, tolling
For earth's loveliest daughter
Night's dumbness breaks rolling
Ghostlily:
So our boat breaks the water
Witchingly.

As her look the dream troubles
Of her tearful-eyed lover.
So our sails in the bubbles
Ghostlily
Are mirrored and hover
Moonily.



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