Excerpt from Rosemary: Book of Verse Dawn at Sea. The black robed Night enfolds with mystery The silent secrets of the mighty sea; The rhythmic waves murmur a lullaby, While drowsy stars blink in a dark-domed sky. Night reigns, and silence somnolent and calm Has placed on earth, and sea, and sky, her charm, When lo! her pall of sombre blackness dense Is lighted by a faint, dull radiance, - A shadowy ghost-light over sky and sea, Enshrouding all the world in mystery. 'Tis then, the first breath of the Dawn is heard; The wave-crests by the morning breeze are stirred And, as chimerian doubts and fears soon flee Before the onslaught of reality, So now the bands of radiant light, released By smiling Dawn within the waking East, Emboldened, splendid, break upon the Night, Who flies, her black robes trailing in her flight. With lingering fingers Dawn doth draw away The cloud hung curtains in the East, and Day Glides through, reflected in her radiancy Within the thousand mirrors of the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.