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THE SEA. 



In Kingsley's poem, " three fishermen sailed away to the West/' thinking of their 

 much-loved home; " three wives sat weeping in the lighthouse tower." 



" Three corses lay out on the shining sands 

 In the morning gleam as the tide went down, 

 And the women are weeping and wringing their hands 

 For those who will never come home to the town ; 



" AT DAYBREAK, ON THE BLEAK SEA BEACH, 

 A FISHERMAN* STOOD AGHAST." 



For men must work and women must weep, 

 And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep ; 

 And good-bye to the bar and its moaning." 



No more splendid tribute has ever been paid to a neglected hero than that which 

 appeared in the pages of a popular monthly * some years since, over the honoured signature 

 of Robert Browning. 



* The Cornhill Magazine, March, 1871. 



