Sea Slumber-Song

Sea-birds are asleep,
The world forgets to weep.
Sea murmurs her soft slumber-song
On the shadowy sand
Of this elfin land ;
" I, the Mother mild.
Hush thee, 0 my child.
Forget the voices wild !
Isles in elfin light
Dream, the rocks and caves.
Lulled by whispering waves.
Yeil their marbles bright,
Foam glimmers faintly white
Upon the shelly sand
Of this elfin land ;
Sea-sound, like violins.
To slumber woos and wins,
I murmur my soft slumber-song,
Leave woes, and wails, and sins.
Ocean's shadowy might
Breathes good-night,
Good-night ! "

Kynanxe Cove.