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THE OPAL SEA 



The beauty 

 that shall he. 



darkness settle in the purple east; may gray- 

 wings come and go along the deep wave-hollows 

 and sea weeds stream beneath in swirling cur- 

 rents and blue waves pour upon the shell-strewn 

 beaches where crumbling cliff and broken prom- 

 ontory look outward at the distant ocean ! And 

 may that ocean with its shifting surface, in 

 calm or storm, be grander far arid more sub- 

 lime than ever; and may the eyes that watch 

 see with a calmer faith and brighter the sun 

 and moon rise up from out the wave, and in 

 the growing dusk of years behold new stars of 

 promise come forth with tremulous splendor to 

 shine upon the Opal Sea. 



