| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 203. Milton |
| | | By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| I PACE the sounding sea-beach and behold | |
| How the voluminous billows roll and run, | |
| Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun | |
| Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled, | |
| And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold | 5 |
| All its loose-flowing garments into one, | |
| Plunges upon the shore, and floods the dun | |
| Pale reach of sands, and changes them to gold. | |
| So in majestic cadence rise and fall | |
| The mighty undulations of thy song, | 10 |
| O sightless bard, England’s Mæonides! | |
| And ever and anon, high over all | |
| Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong | |
| Floods all the soul with its melodious seas. | |
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