NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
HE, sunlight glitters keen and bright, 
Where, miles away, 
Lies stretching to my dazzled sight 
A luminous belt, a misty light, 
Beyond the dark pine bluffs and wastes 
of sandy gray. 
The tremulous shadow of the Sea! 
Against its ground 
Of silvery light, rock, hill and tree, 
Still as a picture, clear and free 
With varying outline mark the coast 
for miles around. 
Ha! like a kind hand on my brow 
Comes this fresh breeze, 
Cooling its dull and feverish glow, 
While through my being seems to flow 
The breath of a new life,—the healing 
of the seas! 
What heed I of the dusty land 
-And noisy town? 
I see the mighty deep expand 
Now rest we, where this grassy mound 
His feet hath set : 
In the great waters, which have bound 
His granite ankles greenly round 
With long and tangled moss, and weeds 
with cool spray wet. 
I draw a freer breath—I seem 
Like all I see— : 
Waves in the sun—the white winged gleam 
Of sea birds in the slanting beam— 
And _ far-off sails which flit before the 
south wind free. 
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I sit alone; in foam and spray 
Wave after wave 
Breaks on the rocks which, stern and gray, 
Shoulder the broken tide away, | 
Or murmurs hoarse and strong through 
mossy cleft and cave. 
From its white line of glimmering sand 
To where the blue of heaven on bluer 
waves shuts down. 
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—W HITTER. 
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