Where have you gone? The tide is over you, The turn of midnight water’s over you, As Time is over you, and mystery, And memory, the flood that does not flow.
ATTRIBUTION:
Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971), Australian poet, journalist. Five Bells (l. 97–100). . .
Poetry in Australia, Vols. I–II. Vol. I: From the Ballads to Brennan, T. Inglis Moore, comp.; Vol. II: Modern Australian Verse, Douglas Stewart, comp. (1965) University of California Press.
